MPs' expenses: disgraced policians received thousands to shut up their offices - Telegraph

MPs' expenses: disgraced policians received thousands to shut up their offices - Telegraph: "More than 200 MPs claimed the payments of up to £42,732, which they were entitled to use for staff salaries and office costs if they were leaving Parliament, receiving a total of £6.8 million.
Critics questioned why the payments were necessary given that many of the MPs had announced that they were leaving the Commons several years earlier.
A large number of employees who would have received the payments were MPs’ relatives hired to run their offices, meaning that the cash would have gone straight into their household income.
Labour’s Jim Devine, who was convicted last month of false accounting on his expenses, was paid £19,832.
David Chaytor, who was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for cheating on his Commons allowances, received £10,089."

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