"It is the legitimate costs of having a constituency home to do my job.
Burnham, who is the MP for the Greater Manchester constituency of Leigh, has been approached about the job and is expected to make an announcement in the next few weeks.
The northern English county constituency of Yorkshire had 15,000 voters in 1741.
Two years ago the parliamentary constituency of Tottenham had the highest unemployment of any in London.
David Lammy, another London Labour MP, points out that his constituency of Tottenham has 38 bookmakers but no bookshops.
At least 10 attempts have been made from computers in Parliament to remove information about her expenses claims and a further 20 efforts to delete the information, some from her constituency of Enfield, have also been recorded in Wikipedia's logs.
At the 2010 General Election, the constituency of Broxtowe had one of the narrowest margins in the East Midlands.
However, as the brilliant Bisi Alimi – the gay migrant from Nigeria who hugged voters in Nigel Farage's constituency of South Thanet – has said, we are woefully underrepresented in terms of queer MPs from ethnic minorities.
"It's in the interest of any constituency to have an N.D.P. candidate," Mohammed Fuad, 35, a hardware store owner, said as he sipped a glass of tea in his shop in Sayyida Zeinab, a working-class Cairo district.
And the firebrand cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, who has a large constituency of radical Shias, has also declared himself against the draft, though he may yet relent, as he has done on other issues before.
