A number of constituents have complained to me that an additional budget of £10,000 has been made available to MPs to assist them in working from home. As I’ve said in this column several times before, when MPs determined these things themselves they were rather more sensitive to political realities -having to look our constituents in the eye. Now however, we have no role in these decisions whatsoever.
A Google search will reveal that I significantly underspent the budget available to me, and I can assure constituents I will not be using any of the additional £10,000.