Top 20 UK MP expense claimants 2005-2008

Someone was bound to do it. Don’t know if he did it but this comes from Old Holborn. We’ve added links to the names where there is a Telegraph story.

TWENTY HIGHEST EXPENSES CLAIMANTS
Total claims 2005-08 (excluding travel)

Liam Byrne £ 478,536 LABOUR

Joan Ryan £ 469,893 LABOUR

Dan Norris £ 450,985 LABOUR

Shahid Malik £ 446,314 LABOUR

Charlotte Atkins £ 443,244 LABOUR

David Wilshire £ 438,377 TORY

Tom Levitt £ 436,686 LABOUR

Diana Johnson £ 436,632 LABOUR

Fabian Hamilton £ 435,999LABOUR

Jacqui Smith £ 434,909 LABOUR – doesn’t need a link – hers went on for weeks.

Margaret Moran £ 434,456 LABOUR

Ian Austin £ 434,409 LABOUR

A. Rosindell £ 434,149 TORY

Andrew George £ 434,062 LIBDEM

Dawn Butler £ 433,865 LABOUR

Roger Godsiff £ 433,298 LABOUR

Tim Farron £ 433,260 LABOUR

Peter Hain £ 431,905 LABOUR

Norman Lamb £ 431,683 LABOUR

S. Hesford £ 431,527 LABOUR

To save you counting them, we have….. and the party that comes in #1 for troughing by a landslide is:

Labour – 16 places
Conservative – 2 places
LibDem – 2 places
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