6:18pm Friday 15th May 2009
By Oliver Evans
ALLOWANCES and expenses for MPs for the 2007/08 year were released in March.
These showed four which represent south Buckinghamshire kept a second home paid for by the taxpayer at a cost of £75,000.
How much each MP claimed for items such as staff and stationary were also released. Read about these claims here.
Specific details about claims since 2004 are to be released in the summer but a leak to The Daily Telegraph newspaper revealed these early.
One Bucks MP featured in these reports, Chesham and Amersham MP Cheryl Gillan, who apologised for claiming for dog food. Read the report here..
As the row deepened Bucks MPs spoke about the damage the revelations had caused and Wycombe MP Paul Goodman pledged to reveal his expenses to Bucks Free Press. Read the report here.
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