THE latest tranche of MPs expenses were made public this week.
More than 25,000 claims were submitted by MPs during the last two months of 2010, with �3.2million paid out by the recently-formed �Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which oversees the expenses system.
Claims from South East �Cambridgeshire MP James Paice, and his North East �Cambridgeshire colleague Stephen Barclay, made up �6,550.95 of the claims.
Mr Barclay claimed �6,228.55 �during November and �December, down from the �10,669.84 he claimed between May and August last year.
Among his claims were �2,900 in rent, �120 for electricity bills, �183.30 for stationery, �337.38 for advertising and �1079.83 for a new scanner.
Mr Barclay also claimed a total of �639.58 in travel expenses, which included a claim of �3.04 for a journey of 7.6 miles between Chatteris and March.
South East Cambridgeshire MP James Paice claimed �332.40 during the two-month period, all for travel expenses.
The biggest claim was for �44.40 for a trip of 111 miles with the lowest claim coming in at �8 for a journey of 20 miles.
The highest total paid to any MP was �14,105 to Bournemouth East Conservative Tobias Ellwood, with Labour’s MP for Bolton North East David Crausby next on the list with a claim of �14,091.
The smallest total payment among the MPs was �14.03 to Conservative MP for �Stourbridge, Margot James, although 66 MPs received no payments at all.
According to the standards authority, �9,998 of claims �submitted by 44 MPs were refused during the November-December period.
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