My MP got this
I'm wondering if you could comment on the £10,000 awarded to you as extra expenses available to you until next March.
Specifically;
Given MP’s already get £26,000 pa to cover your office expenses, why do they need more? Surely £26,000 is sufficient especially when that sum alone exceeds the starting salary of a nurse in the NHS?
Do you personally intend to claim any or all of the extra £10,000? If you do would you kindly be able to identify how you justify the extra money needed and on what it will be spent?
Will you still be able to get your expenses claim in within 90 days?
Does a grant of this magnitude really send out the correct message to the country at a time when many people are struggling due to the current Coronavirus crisis?
Should you and your colleagues openly stand up and be counted by publicly refusing to claim the increased expenses?
I realise you were not an MP at the time but I’m sure you will understand my concerns given some of your current and past colleagues somewhat dubious history when the words Members of Parliament and Expenses are mentioned in the same sentence.
Thank you in advance for answering my specific questions, hopefully without a generic reply.
Yours sincerely,
