Two Lanarkshire MPs are amongst quite a few elected officers discovered to have charged their Amazon Prime subscriptions to the taxpayer in the course of the previous 18 months.
Steven Bonnar, SNP MP for Coatbridge, Bellshill & Chryston, and Angela Crawley, represents Lanark and Hamilton East as SNP MP, have claimed funds for the service again on bills.
The Impartial Parliamentary Requirements Authority (IPSA), which handles MPs’ expense claims, has beforehand acknowledged Prime subscriptions may be inside the guidelines, however “the MP might want to justify that the subscription is primarily used for parliamentary functions on the time they submit the declare”.
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Mr Bonnar submitted a declare for £7.99, listed as “Amazon Prime,” telling Lanarkshire Stay's sister paper the Sunday Mirror it was a one-off buy of stationery, not a subscription cost, and that the worth was a coincidence.
Ms Crawley refused to remark when approached by Glasgow Stay about a number of Amazon Prime claims.
A one-off cost of £18.50 for NOW TV was additionally claimed again.
Tory management hopeful Liz Truss is considered one of at the very least seven MPs to cost her Amazon Prime subscription to the taxpayer.
Three extra Tory MPs - Commerce Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan, James Grey and Vicky Ford - have additionally claimed again funds for the subscription service for the reason that begin of the Parliamentary session in 2021.
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Labour’s Fleur Anderson and Janet Daby have been additionally amongst these discovered to be doing so. Most claimed again the fees as a month-to-month £7.99 subscription price - however Mr Grey and Ms Truss claimed again the annual price of £79 as a lump sum.
IPSA resumed publishing MPs’ bills information this week after a delay of greater than a yr.
The physique “paused” publication of particular person claims in November 2021 following the homicide of Sir David Amess at a surgical procedure in his constituency.
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