Caerphilly MP ordered to pay back almost £13,000
Thursday February 4th, 2010
Caerphilly MP Wayne David.
Caerphilly Member of Parliament Wayne David has had to pay back almost £13,000 in expenses after a review of MPs’ expenses.
Sir Thomas Legg conducted the review into expenses paid out over the last five years.
Mr David has already paid back the £12,959.69 he claimed in expenses.
He was paid a total of £6,184.16 (£155.23 a month from April 2004 to March 2008) for critical illness insurance cover, which is not allowable under the Additional Costs Allowance system.
In August 2007, he changed mortgage providers and increased the amount borrowed for a purpose not allowable under the ACA.
As a result, he was overpaid by a total of £6,038.33.
He was also paid £430 for a bedroom chair in March and again in July 2007. He was further overpaid by £262.20 for mortgage interest in 2008-09.
Sir Thomas’ report states: “The Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) system was deeply flawed. In particular, the rules were vague, and MPs were themselves self-certifying as to the propriety of their use of the allowance. Taken with the prevailing lack of transparency and the ‘culture of deference’, this meant that the Fees Office’s decisions lacked legitimacy; and many of them were in fact mistaken.”
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His over claim was worth more than the average annual wage in Caerphilly: http://bit.ly/a0KZYs
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makes you sick if you or i done what these MP”s do we would be taken to court but all they do is pay it back and nothing else said 1 law for those and another for us wont have my vote in my book they have commited a crime
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I agree to claim money you are not entiled to is wrong.how can claiming for a bedroom chair out of expencess be right. if we asked our employers to pay for our bedroom chairs do you think they would.(I dont think so.)I hope people will rember this when they vote, No opology yet Mr David why not, is it becouse you dont think you did any thing wrong.(Yes you did)
David T Smith.
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