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Margaret Moran makes £177,000 profit on tax-payer funded house
MPs’ expenses – the scandal that just keeps on giving:
MPs’ expenses: Margaret Moran sells taxpayer-funded Luton home for £177,000 profit
The MP for Luton South, who was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party over the expenses and lobbying scandals, bought the semi-detached property for £72,995.
She “flipped” her second home designation to the house for just one [...]
Viewing MPs’ travel expenses on a map
There’s a nifty little Google Map at http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/maps/mpTravelExpensesMap.html which is a great example of how you can use maps to make statistics clearer. In this case, the big issue is that MPs do have genuinely different legitimate travel needs depending on where they live. It’s only reasonable for an MP from Scotland to have much [...]
Why does one Labour MP claim £80k more in expenses than another MP living on the same street?
The two Labour MPs for Luton, Kelvin Hopkins and Margaret Moran live on the same street in Luton. You could argue over whether or not they should be able to claim a second homes allowance. But what’s really rum is that whilst Kelvin Hopkins has claimed £8,894 from the second homes allowance in the last [...]
