[sarcasm on] Oh goody, another career politician... [sarcasm off]
I note that the Right Honorable Mr Fallon has, as Fox 3 noted, had his hand in the till. Should be good for all of those JPA claims then!
From Wikipedia:
According to one newspaper, Mr Fallon, the deputy chairman of the Treasury select committee, claimed for the mortgage repayments on his Westminster flat in their entirety. MPs are only allowed to claim for interest charges.
Between 2002 and 2004, Mr Fallon regularly claimed £1,255 per month in capital repayments and interest, rather than the £700-£800 for the interest component alone. After his error was noticed by staff in the Commons fees office in September 2004, he said: "Why has no one brought this to my attention before?"[citation needed] He repaid £2,200 of the over-claim, but was allowed to offset the remaining £6,100 against his allowance.
Finally, just how is the Secretary of State for Defence a suitably qualified and experienced person (SQEP) in that he left St Andrews Uni to go into politics and then for a short while dabbled as director of some care-home and nursing-home companies?
Isn't it odd that being a politician requires absolutely no qualifications at all and now it woukd also appear that Ministers are the same. It must be the highest paid non-skilled job in the country!
LJ