Minister for Dodgy Expenses ; How Can Mps Lecture Bankers On Bonuses When Jacqui Smith Claims Pounds 116,000 for Home Costs While Staying with Her Sister? [Edition 3]
Daily Mail › February 10, 2009
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JACQUI Smith was branded 'morally questionable' last night over pocketing Pounds 116,000 of taxpayers' money for a second home while lodging with her sister.
The Home Secretary classifies her 'digs' in London as her main residence, which leaves her clear to bank up to Pounds 24,000 a year in Commons expenses to run her family home. Miss Smith claims the payments for the detached house in her West Midlands constituency where she lives with her husband and two young children.See the full content of this document
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Minister for Dodgy Expenses ; How Can Mps Lecture Bankers On Bonuses When Jacqui Smith Claims Pounds 116,000 for Home Costs While Staying with Her Sister? [Edition 3]
Last night she insisted she had 'fully abided' by Parliament's rules for claiming the additional costs allowance - also known as second homes allowance - which allows MPs from outside London to fund and furnish somewhere to live near the House of Commons.
But the row...See the full content of this document
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