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Proceeding contribution from Michael Connarty (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 December 2010. It occurred during Backbench debate on Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

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I have to disabuse my right hon. Friend of the idea that IPSA can handle treating personal expenses and office expenses differently. When I asked IPSA to reimburse my expenses for living in London to my personal account and to put my claims for my office into an office cost account, which I have run for the past 18 years, it said that it could not handle two bank accounts at the same time. It could pay all the money into my personal account or all of it into my office account, but it could not separate the payments. The system is terrible and not geared up to deal with the reality of an MP's life.

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Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
519 c1042 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Administration Costs Allowances Bureaucracy Families Payments Members Location Members' constituency work Members' staff Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
Link
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