MPs Expense Claims – North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims
MPs Expense Claims – North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims. Among the claims by North-East MPs were:
Hilary Armstrong, MP for North West Durham:
* Claimed £3,100 towards the cost of re-pointing the gables and walls at her constituency home in Crook, County Durham; * £705 for a dishwasher for office staff in September 2005. This was reduced to £375 by officials.
Anne McIntosh (Vale of York)
* A £10 claim for mousetraps * A claim for £6.65 worth of Tetley Tea bags in March 2006
Dari Taylor (Stockton South)
* £229.13 and £151.58 for ‘gold crested’ House of Commons greetings cards; * £140 for cleaning, including dry cleaning, and £268 for a replacement dishwasher.
Vera Baird (Redcar)
* £2,009 for work to fit a new boiler, along with £1,031 for a new beech floor and £1,008 for new laminate flooring
Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland)
* £3,035.30 claimed for bathroom items between December 2005 and March 2006. Items included two soap dishes at £25 each and four linen baskets totaling £135; * £300 for portrait photographs in September 2007.
Phil Willis, Harrogate and Knaresborough (Lib Dem)
* March 08- claimed £1700 for decorating new flat * October 07- claimed £130 for bedding
John Cummings, Labour MP for Easington *£1,344 – Decoration – January 08 *£3,220 – Kitchen/gas renewals – May 06 *£2,036 – New gas fire – Feb 06
William Hague (Richmond, North Yorkshire) * £852.60 on national newspapers between January 2007 and February last year; * Monthly claims of about £60 for cleaning
Kevan Jones (North Durham) * £250 for curtains * £796.77 for carpets
Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham) * £1,095 for a sofa bed * £749 for a sofa
Frank Cook MP (Stockton North) * £5,374 + £745 – paid to “Out of Laos” for translation and networking services to pursue his interest in South East Asia * 99p for candles
Iain Wright MP (Hartlepool) * £1,200 for bedding and kitchen equipment
(UPDATE: Hartlepool’s Reaction To Politician’s Expenses Claims)
Alan Milburn (Darlington) * MDF Italia kitchen table and bench £1,009
John Greenway (Ryedale) * Under the additional costs allowance he claimed £500 on pot plants and bushes in total
Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) * Flat screen TV, an easy chair and a 16ft mast for a flat.
Care of The Northern Echo. MPs Expense Claims – North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims.
UPDATE 20th June 2009: Payback time as MPs count cost of expenses row – more from the Northern Echo:
“Eight North-East MPs are among nearly 200 across the country who have collectively returned £478,616 since the crisis began in May.
Top of the payback list in the North-East is Hilary Armstrong (North-West Durham), who revealed early on in the crisis that she was voluntarily repaying £5,500 of food claims, because it weighed on her “conscience”.
TONY BLAIR, the former Prime Minister and MP for Sedgefield, tried to claim almost £7,000 on expenses to repair his constituency home two days before leaving office, it has emerged. “
Thanks again to the Noerthern Echo for the original source of North Eastern MPs Expenses Claims.
