MP supports 'second home' allowance
Published Date:
04 July 2008
MPS have voted to keep controversial second home allowances which allow them to claim up to £24,000 of taxpayers' cash for household goods and improvements each year.
Elmet MP Colin Burgon was one of 172 MPs who rejected a move to reform expenses which would have stopped the use of public funds to furnish second homes.
Pontefract and Castleford MP Yvette Cooper and Selby MP John Grogan voted to support the overhaul of the Additional Costs Allowance, a move which was defeated by 172 votes to 144.
Ms Cooper and her husband, children's secretary Ed Balls, MP for Normanton, are under investigation by the Parliament standards watchdog over their expenses.
They were referred to the watchdog following a complaint about whether their London property was in fact, their second home, rather than their residence in Castleford.
Hemsworth MP Jon Trickett – whose constituency covers Featherstone – did not vote on second home allowances on Thursday.
See next week's Express for a full report.
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