Will Wells MP find that mud sticks after 550 bags of horse manure hits the fan?

By Wells_Jaqui | Friday, February 05, 2010, 15:09

370 MPs were ordered to repay more than £1.1m yesterday related to non-allowable expenses following a long-awaited review by Sir Thomas Legg in which he called the expenses system “deeply flawed.”

David Heathcoat-Amory, MP for Wells

MP for Wells, David Heathcoat-Amory repaid nearly £30k which he was judged to have erroneously claimed over a five-year period for expenses relating to garden & property maintenance. The lushness of his lawn, keeping vermin at bay and after-care of his dahlias were all costs charged to the taxpayer due to a lack of clarity on what constituted permissible charges. It was the 4th largest sum paid by all sitting MPs after appeals.

He and his wife Linda own a stone-built country home near Glastonbury which the MP designates as his second home and an additional house in Hammersmith, west London, both of which they own outright.

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Guess he will be keeping his head down for a while, but lets hope people bring it up when electioneering starts. Horse for Bull then.

By grumpyoldgit2 at 20:41 on 09/02/10
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My friend Mr Scootaman says: " isn't a conservative mp who lives in the country, buying in horse poo, like a freezer at the north pole buying in ice cubes?"

I have to say I have met Mr H-A once, he was a very nice man & was also very helpful on a separate occasion when I contacted him via mail. I would prefer he spent the money on his lawn rather than the govt use the funds for war-mongering abroad.

By WellieWonka at 16:25 on 05/02/10
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