Sentence examples for constituency spending from inspiring English sources

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams Photograph: Murdo MacLeod 3.58pm GMT Peers are now voting on the constituency spending amendment tabled by Lord Harries.

New very tight constituency spending caps are a particular concern.

He repeats the point about most of what is in the Harries amendment on constituency spending being in the bill.

For example, if a group were handing out leaflets at an agriculture show in a particular constituency, but not trying to influence voters just in that constituency, they would not be covered by the constituency spending rules under his amendment.

He says there is little difference between what the government is offering, and what Lord Harries of Pentregrath, the former bishop who is pushing the anti-government amendments on constituency spending and staffing costs, actually want.

The party acknowledges that some accommodation for activists was not properly registered but insists that the bus tour was part of the national campaign organised by Conservative campaign headquarters (CCHQ) and as such did not fall to be recorded in individual constituency spending limits.

A mix of suburbs and increasingly Asian urban districts, the constituency spent decades in Tory hands.

Most young people in his constituency spent the nights of riot, he often recalls, shut up fearfully at home as he himself once did.They appreciate this in Tottenham.

According to the expenses claims leaked to the Daily Telegraph Gove "flipped" his second home to his constituency after spending thousands furnishing his London home, including more than £2,000 spent at David Cameron's mother-in-law's designer furniture shop Oka.

One party member who stood for election as an MP in a northern constituency and spent more than ten years in various voluntary positions in the party said he sometimes gets abusive emails when he contacts new members.

"I've heard people saying MDC is just not doing work in the constituencies and is spending too much time in the palace," Booysen added.