Sunday, March 19, 2006
Ruth Kelly Is Asked A Question.
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is facing demands that she explain an apparent 'black hole' in her Commons expenses concerning £72,000 of taxpayers money she claimed on a second home.
Commons rules state that Kelly is entitled to claim back the interest payments she makes on her mortgage, and she has claimed the money over the past four years to pay for a house in her Lancashire constituency, but the annual mortgage interest should be around £5,000 a year, a total of £20,000 over the four years.
Allowing a ridiculously high estimate for utility bills and council tax, this leaves about £42,000 unaccounted for.
By the end of next year, Ms Kelly is likely to have claimed in expenses the entire £109,000 she originally paid for the property.
The MP has declined to comment, apart from a text message via an aide in her Department for Education and Skills: "From julie, dfes, 'all money claimed is in strict accordance with the rules set out by the Fees Office.' i have nothing to add to that comment."
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Commons rules state that Kelly is entitled to claim back the interest payments she makes on her mortgage, and she has claimed the money over the past four years to pay for a house in her Lancashire constituency, but the annual mortgage interest should be around £5,000 a year, a total of £20,000 over the four years.
Allowing a ridiculously high estimate for utility bills and council tax, this leaves about £42,000 unaccounted for.
By the end of next year, Ms Kelly is likely to have claimed in expenses the entire £109,000 she originally paid for the property.
The MP has declined to comment, apart from a text message via an aide in her Department for Education and Skills: "From julie, dfes, 'all money claimed is in strict accordance with the rules set out by the Fees Office.' i have nothing to add to that comment."
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Ah yes, Ruth Kelly apparently asked for more than £50,000 above the cost of her mortgae, yet claims she did nothing wrong, she will of course have been fully cleared by Blair for any wrongdoing.
I feel, more than ever now, that the voting public should have a magic bullet that they could use - an electronic button they could press to signal when they have had enough of a corrupt government - so that when sufficient people had used this immediate option there would automatically be a general election.
LoL. We can dream, Byronb, but I'm fast coming round to thinking there's some value in the two term only system of the US.
But when I look at Bush... maybe one would be even better!
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But when I look at Bush... maybe one would be even better!
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