{"id":2748,"date":"2022-11-22T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:44:47","slug":"mps-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"MPs Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale has provided the following comment, after IPSA&#8217;s recent announcement: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I, like many of my colleagues from across the house, do not agree with IPSA&#8217;s decision to allow MPs to claim expenses for office parties at Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will be taking an opportunity to thank my staff at Christmas for their hard work this year. But I will cover any cost for this, as I have always done, personally. Events like this should not come at the expense of the taxpayer, and I believe that IPSA was wrong to suggest otherwise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MPs can claim Christmas parties on expenses under new rules <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iu1YzTBU8g\">https:\/\/t.co\/Iu1YzTBU8g<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCPolitics\/status\/1595014139210256385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale has provided the following comment, after IPSA&#8217;s recent announcement: &#8220;I, like many of my colleagues from across the house, do not agree with IPSA&#8217;s decision to allow MPs to claim expenses for office parties at Christmas. I will be taking an opportunity to thank my staff at Christmas for their hard work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}