MP expense claims

The MPs' expenses crisis was the biggest scandal to hit modern British politics. It did immense damage to people's faith in politics, parliament and MPs. As a parliamentary candidate, I pledged that if elected I would post details of my expense claims online, every month. I also promised I would not claim expenses without a receipt or invoice.

I'm delighted that on this part of the website I can keep to the promises I made and publish all my expense claims. I hope that this will help to start re-build trust in politics and parliament, and give people confidence in their new MP.

With best wishes,

Nick


30 JUN 2010

June

During June a claim of £65 was made for a taxi from the House of Commons for a return to Enfield after a late night sitting ending after 11pm. The taxi was shared with David Burrowes MP for Enfield Southgate.

£212.13 was spent on stationery.

Monthly staffing costs for June will be published in July. Staffing costs for June amounted to £3,714. I also claimed for a subscription to the Parliamentary Resources Unit, which instead of all 650 MPs hiring researchers allows for us to share a team of "pooled" researchers. The annual subscription is £3,887.50.

My blackberry bill was £64.63, for which I claimed £58.17 (I only claim for 90% of the bill to allow for 10% personal calls).

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A very reasonable amount
- Alfred Molinari

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