Sentence examples for homes allowance from inspiring English sources

His defence: There is "no justification" for colleagues living in London to claim the second homes allowance.

Although he had already abandoned plans to replace the controversial second homes allowance with a daily "clocking in" payment to MPs, he had still wanted to win approval for the broad principle of linking allowances to attendance.

House: Got in hot water over a mortgage scandal in which he claimed a second homes allowance on a London property and then switched it to a large farmhouse in his Cheshire constituency of Tatton.

Under a "second homes allowance" enabling every member to claim the costs of commuting to London, M.P.'s entered claims to stretch the credulity of an Evelyn Waugh novel.

I do not recall Speaker Boothroyd or Speaker Weatherall challenging the second homes allowance system, nor any of the deputy speakers nor for that matter any Prime Minister or Leader of the Oppostion.

It was in May 2008 that Brooke won a high court case against the House of Commons for the full disclosure of MPs' second homes allowances.

Title: Liberal Democrat leader Stands accused of: claiming the maximum allowed under the second home allowance and regularly claiming for food, gardening, furniture and decorating his constituency home in Sheffield Hallam.

Clarke told the parliamentary authorities that his main home was in his constituency, allowing him to claim a second home allowance on his London home and have the council tax there covered by his expenses.

Ms Smith's declaration that her primary residence is her sister's house in south-east London, where she pays £100 a week rent for a room, has allowed her to claim £116,000 in second-home allowance over five years for her family home in Redditch, Worcestershire, where her husband and children live.

True, he did little to change the slack rules on expenses (especially the so-called second-homes allowance, which financed the most egregious nest-feathering).

Much of the nest-feathering took place under the so-called second-homes allowance, worth up to £24,000 ($36,000) a year to MPs who require accommodation in both London and their constituencies.