Sentence examples for costs allowances from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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

What inspired you to look into the issue of MPs' additional costs allowance?

As with so many of these privileges, the rationale behind the Additional Costs Allowance, or ACA, at first looks unarguable.

Osborne had been claiming the maximum on his additional costs allowance for his Tatton constituency home in 2008-09.

Can the ACA pay for the ceilings to be plastered over and repainted?" ACA stands for additional costs allowance, or second-home allowance.

He noted: "Sir Thomas found that Mr Malik has acted fully within the ACA [additional costs allowance] rules at all times, both in this year and in previous years.

David Willetts, the shadow universities secretary, has tightened up his accounting procedures when claiming the parliamentary costs allowance to pay for the running of his second home.

On his additional costs allowance form for 1 February – 31 March 2006, Burnham claimed £16,644.08 for the "purc of new flat (see attached)".