Originally posted by dang65
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Just got an e-mail with MP's expenses...
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Originally posted by dang65 View Post
The biggest claim there is for £170K, isn't it? What are you on about?
Do you mean they've claimed £92M in total, all added together? There must be an awful lot of them.
To hit 92m they need to claim an average of 140672. In most cases their biggest costs were staff costs, typically at the 90k mark. Add in a 24k 2nd home and say 5k on travel and you are pretty much there. This doesn't include their 60k+ salaryRule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
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Originally posted by TonyEnglish View PostNot difficult at all really. Those numbers were on the beeb and I thought I had posted them before - a certainly posted the dim prawn ones. If you think that there are 654 MP's then if they all claimed 100k that's 65,400,000.
To hit 92m they need to claim an average of 140672. In most cases their biggest costs were staff costs, typically at the 90k mark. Add in a 24k 2nd home and say 5k on travel and you are pretty much there. This doesn't include their 60k+ salary
Staff costs = cost of 'employing' sister, brother, mother etc at very high wages and the public at minimum cost. It seems that many were doing a 'Derek Conway' and there will have to be many more resignations.Comment
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