Sentence examples for costs allowance from inspiring English sources

Legg's final report, published in February 2010 (House of Commons Members Estimate Committee, 2010), focused on overly excessive claims made within the Additional Costs Allowance, a scheme that allowed MPs to claim money to pay for and maintain a second home, either in their constituency or in London.

Most abuses related to the "additional costs allowance" (ACA), the £24,000-a-year sum that allows MPs to cover the cost of having a second home so that they can serve their constituency and visit Westminster regularly.

Cameron described his behaviour as completely unacceptable after it was revealed that MacKay designated Kirkbride's constituency flat in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, as his main residence, allowing him to claim the annual £24,006 additional costs allowance on their joint London home.

The additional costs allowance is proving controversial.

Overall he claimed £23,724.70 for his additional costs allowance that year.

(The ACA is the additional costs allowance, aka the second home allowance).

January 2005 - Journalists make freedom-of-information request for MPs' full Additional Costs Allowances.

Facing numerous political obstacles, Brooke, using the Freedom of Information Act, tenaciously pieced together the accounts of receipts and credit slips detailing MPs' claims for "additional costs allowances" – from soft furnishings to the infamous floating duck island – that cost many of them their jobs and which has transformed the parties' election agendas.

This is allowed within the Commons rules, because the additional-costs allowance can be used to offset various costs associated with an MP having to maintain a second home, not just mortgage or rent.

Her 2007-08 additional cost allowance only runs to March 2008, when her television bill was £32.58.

The Additional Cost Allowance claims released by the Commons authorities covered the financial year 2008-09 before the expenses furore engulfed Westminster.