MPs investigated over expenses should not be named

[Mister M]

Tory MP Mark Hoban claimed £35 on a toilet roll holder, £100 for a chrome shower rack and £79 for four silk cushion covers on his second home allowance.

 

All in the rules. The rules are made by the members.

 

Tory MP Mark Hoban, Employment Minister, says unemployed people have taken benefits for granted as a way of life and must "roll up their sleeves" and stop "playing the system."

 

Is this the sort of hypocritical behaviour they don't want the electorate to know about!

 

That's disgusting though no surprise from Hoban....Who the hell does he think he is, encouraging the press (not that they need any) to go after 'welfare scroungers', yet he's taking the **** with his expenses. He should bloody well roll up his sleeves and stop playing the system! The stupid tosser

[Lotusflower]

That's disgusting though no surprise from Hoban....Who the hell does he think he is, encouraging the press (not that they need any) to go after 'welfare scroungers', yet he's taking the **** with his expenses. He should bloody well roll up his sleeves and stop playing the system! The stupid tosser

 

Stupid Tory...surely!

[Gordonb]

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Edited October 30, 2014 by Gordonb

[esme]

It seems there has been a slight mishap to the records

 

MPs to escape expenses investigations after paperwork destroyed by Parliament

MPs accused of abusing the unreformed expenses system will escape official investigation after the House of Commons authorities destroyed all record of their claims, the Telegraph can reveal.

 

John Bercow, the Speaker, faces accusations he has presided over a fresh cover-up of MPs' expenses after tens of thousands of pieces of paperwork relating to claims made before 2010 under the scandal-hit regime were shredded.

 

Members of the public who have written to Kathryn Hudson, the standards watchdog, to raise concerns about their MP’s claims have been told there can be no investigation due to lack of evidence.

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However, committee minutes seen by this newspaper show that in March 2010, in the wake of the MPs expenses scandal, Mr Bercow’s committee called for the policy to be suspended and all expenses records to be saved.

 

Then, in February 2012, the committee discussed and agreed to implement the “existing policy on the retention and disposal of records” relating to expenses.

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So they thought about retaining these records and then decided to destroy them anyway, it wasn't just an automatic system or an oversight, they were deliberately destroyed.

 

Personally I feel that if these records would have exonerated MP's of any wrongdoing then they would have been preserved at any cost just so they could be used as a defence.

 

The fact that they have been deliberately destroyed is, in my opinion, an admission of guilt.

[mjw47]

It seems there has been a slight mishap to the records

 

 

Personally I feel that if these records would have exonerated MP's of any wrongdoing then they would have been preserved at any cost just so they could be used as a defence.

 

The fact that they have been deliberately destroyed is, in my opinion, an admission of guilt.

 

Had this happened in 'normal' business circumstances then it would, in my opinion, have resulted in a criminal investigation for fraud.

 

Obviously, an exception would be made in the case of Banks and financial institutions as, together with politicians, the standard rules of business ethics and legal requirements do not appear to apply.