Sir Stuart Bell on expenses
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:35 am
yep right you certainly have 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/t ... 302825.stmSir Stuart Bell: we've cleaned up...........
One further anomaly: readers might be puzzled that former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith did not have to pay back any of her expenses, even though the home she designated as her primary residence (a room in her sister's house in London) was found not to be so by an inquiry, which concluded, not surprisingly, that her main family home was where her family lived in her Redditch constituency. The inquiry also discovered that the nights she claimed to spend in her sister's home was untrue -- in fact, she'd spent 37 more nights in Redditch. But by claiming, falsely, that her main home was in London she was able to claim £116,000 she was not really entitled to. Yet not a penny has been asked back (perhaps because she was judged by a committee of MPs which, when it met, had only one non-Labour MP on it). A strange outcome nevertheless.