Mark Harper MP - for the Forest of Dean

Forest MP comments on publication of allowances

10 December 2009

Mark Harper, MP for the Forest of Dean, commenting on the publication of MPs’ allowances said:

“The House of Commons has published some further details of MPs’ allowances this morning on the Parliament website which I welcome. I have published some further information about my allowances on my own website including details of Sir Thomas Legg’s finding that I had ‘no issues’.

The tests I have always applied to anything I claim for are first, is it within the rules? Second, and probably more important, is it reasonable? I hope that, when they look at the details of my expenses and allowances, my constituents will consider that I have indeed been reasonable in all that I have claimed.”