Leader: Expenses Reform Goes a Long Way to Drawing Line Under Scandal
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THE new expenses scheme for MPs announced yesterday should have drawn a line under one of the most disgraceful episodes for the House of Commons in recent political history, a period in which the exposure of widespread abuses of the system threatened to undermine democracy itself.
Drawn up by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) the new rules, which come into effect after the election, bar MPs from claiming expenses for second homes and limit them to employing only one family member.See the full content of this document
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Leader: Expenses Reform Goes a Long Way to Drawing Line Under Scandal
They will be not be able to claim for first-class rail journeys and the maximum they can claim for accommodation and constituency office costs each year will be cut from GBP 56,915 to GBP 40,957.
Ipsa chairman Sir Ian Kennedy promised that the new system would mean ...See the full content of this document
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