Members: Allowances

House of Commons Commission written question – answered at on 20 November 2008.

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Photo of Jo Swinson Jo Swinson Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Foreign Affairs)

To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission on what date the Commission expects to publish information relating to hon. Members' expenses following the judgment of the divisional court on 16 May 2008; and if he will make a statement.

Photo of Nick Harvey Nick Harvey Shadow Secretary of State for Defence

Work is in train to prepare information relating to Members' expenses for publication. The House will be informed when a date for publication is known.

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John Anderson
Posted on 22 Nov 2008 1:21 am (Report this annotation)

Members' expenses are not known after six months? In business that would not be tolerated. Our elected representatives MUST be brought to book and in a much shorter time scale. When I claimed expenses, it had to be done within six weeks of the expense. Over six months is utterly unacceptable.