Politicians’ expenses - who claimed what?

Douglas Carswell Lembit Öpik Derek Conway Mike O’Brien Conservative Harwich Liberal Democrat Labour Redditch Old Bexley & Sidcup Labour North Warwickshire Montgomeryshire Carswell spearheaded the cam- The former home secretary claimed £555.74 Conway, who was expelled from The health minister, claimed for paign to remove Michael Martin Paid electricians from for a 32in widescreen full HD LCD television, the Conservative party over the ready meals, 20 mini-doughnuts, as Speaker for his handling of the ­his Welsh constituency to £244.90 for DVD player, £611 on a new double “misuse” of public money to jumbo wedges, sponge pudding, expenses’ scandal. He claimed travel 418 miles to fix electrical bed from John Lewis, £269 for a Barton double employ his sons, claimed £59 rice puddings, lollies, choc ices £2,960.21 for food in 2008-09. A problems at his London flat. Work- bedstead and £342 for a natural mattress. for plumbing, which included a and a banoffi pie. Tesco receipt included 25 bottles men from the same firm also visited She also claimed £136 for coal and £70.50 for toilet handle being “greased”. of mineral water (24 sparking, one Öpik’s home to replace light switches repairs to an Indesit washer. still) and golden syrup. and for other work. Total

Peter Bottomley Paddy Tipping Dominic Grieve Jack Straw Conservative Worthing West Labour Sherwood Conservative Beaconsfield Labour Blackburn Bottomley has £25,000 worth of A member of the Commons standards The shadow justice secretary The justice secretary conceded he had made an “kidnap for ransom” cover included and privileges committee, he had a £50 was one of several MPs to error over five years covering his council tax in his insurance policy claim for “dog minding” turned down. receive final demands for claims, amounting to an overclaim of £1,415. It was included in a £750 decoration utilities – Grieve received In a handwritten note to parliamentary bill. A Commons official noted: “Mem- a a water bill warning him authorities he said: “I am sorry about this. I am ber says man who did the repairs was that he would face court afraid the reality of life over the past few years the cheapest quote but he included action if he did not pay is that I have often had to complete claims in ‘dog minding’.” £96.27 marginal time.”

Adam Afriye James Arbuthnot Laura Moffatt Kali Mountford Ann Cryer Conservative Windsor Conservative Hampshire NE Labour Labour Colne Valley Labour Keighley The chair of the defence Moffat holds her seat with a majority of Mountford paid £1,345 for a bed On 16 June 2008, she charged the taxpayer Richard Benyon 37, making it the most marginal seat with a “luxuriously padded” Conservative Newbury committee claimed £43.56 £199.95 for a Roberts radio bought from for three garlic peeling and in the country, but she faced yester- headboard upmarket department store Peter Jones, where Both of these MPs cutting sets from home shop- day without fear. Her total claim for she also bought an £18 toilet brush. She then claimed nothing ping channel QVC, as well 2008-9 was just £158.70 – £38.70 claimed £174 for two radios – a Pure Chronos as £6,630 for cleaning and for an electricity bill and £120 for digital clock radio and a second Roberts radio £10,199.01 for service/ one night’s stay in a London hotel. – bought on 16 December 2008 from Peter maintenance Jones.

Andrew Lansley Liam Byrne David Heathcoat-Amory Sir Alan Haselhurst Conservative Labour Birmingham Hodge Hill Conservative Wells Conservative Saffron Walden Cambridgeshire South The the chief secretary to the Treasury, He claimed £6,500 over seven months The deputy speaker of the House of Com- The shadow health secretary claimed £379.74 for a bed and £470 of in 2008 for what appear to be garden- mons has continued charging the pub- claimed for the costs of insuring a other furniture from shop in Walsall. ing services, including £16 a month lic for his gardening at his home in his medal for £2,022 and a painting – In January 2009 he was barred from for “mower/strimmer/leafblower”, constituency of Saffron Walden. Last Hotel Tropical Island – by DDD Ferris claiming £50.92 total for three airbeds £2.69 for “slug pellets” and £1.69 summer, from April to September, he for £1,506. since it was deemed they would not all for “twine”. charged the taxpayer £1,719 for the be for personal use. upkeep of his garden including buying strawberry plants