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New MPs' expenses scheme unveiled MPs to lose second homes claims
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Details of an overhauled MPs' expenses system are being published, nearly a year after damaging expenses leaks. MPs will not be allowed to buy taxpayer funded second homes under new expenses rules to start after the election.
In sweeping changes, MPs can no longer buy taxpayer-funded second homes. Those with constituencies 20 miles or 60 minutes from Westminster will be able to claim up to £1,450 a month - the equivalent of a one bed flat.
Instead, those with constituencies 20 miles or 60 minutes from Westminster can claim up to £1,450 a month - the equivalent of a one bed flat. Expenses chief Sir Ian Kennedy said all claims would require receipts and payoffs to retiring MPs stopped but MPs will be able to employ one relative.
MPs will be able to continue to employ one relative - but the new expenses chief Sir Ian Kennedy said they would be subject to safeguards. He said the "tough" rules were a "clear break" with the old discredited system.
Sir Ian, head of the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, has been considering proposals drawn up after a seven-month inquiry last year.