North Somerset MP Liam Fox put in 16 claims for travel expenses worth less than one pound in the last financial year, the Sunday People revealed yesterday.
The former Defence Minister even claimed 3p for driving between Stowell Concrete factory in Yatton and a constituency surgery in the village in October last year.
Fox’s claims for 2012-13 also includes:
- A 24p claim for a trip of 0.54 miles from a constituency surgery in Clevedon to a competition at Clevedon School
- A 36p claim for 0.81 miles from an exhibition in Portishead to a nearby swimming pool
- A 40p claim for 0.89 miles from a constituent’s home in Clevedon to the Curzon cinema for a film screening on behalf of the Royal British Legion
- A 90p claim for the two-mile journey home from the cinema
- A 64p drive to a weekend summer fair in Clevedon, less than a mile and a half from his constituency home.
Fox told the Sunday People: “I don’t do my expenses. My office does them. But they are all done according to the rules for travel distances.”
However, Fox doesn’t always travel by car. Here he is on the London Underground, although he probably claimed for that journey as well:
As my old granny used to say, ‘Its the pennies that make the pounds”!
Why shouldn’t he claim for his travel on the Tube if it was a work-related journey? Every person who pays taxes would. This really isn’t news so why don’t you stop being so predictable and give politicians a break for once?