Members' Expenses
Bill Presented
3:49 pm
Nick Harvey (Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Defence; North Devon, Liberal Democrat)
How much it will save time alone will tell. I hope that it will save and improve the reputation of the House and improve the quality of British democracy. If it does that and if in a couple of years we have convinced people that any problems that there were are being ironed out, it will have been worth it. The question of how much it costs will depend on terms of contracts that we let, what people bid in at and what scale of work is done. Some estimates are included in the appendices—