Employment minister on the make
Apart from that, what exactly does an employment minister do?
Labour employment minister Tony McNulty lives with his wife Christine Gilbert in a house she owns in Hammersmith, three miles from Westminster. Yet the minister has been claiming up to £14,000 a year in parliamentary expenses to help pay for another house he owns in Harrow, 11 miles from the Commons, in which his parents live.
The MP can claim the money because the house is in his Harrow constituency and so qualifies him for the second home allowance.
The MP can claim the money because the house is in his Harrow constituency and so qualifies him for the second home allowance.
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