This morning the House of Commons has published details and receipts of MPs' claims on the taxpayer for 2008-09.
Here, for example, is the tally of some of what we have paid to keep the Prime Minister and his Scottish home and garden looking clean, neat and tidy:
I note a claim of for £22.50 for Sky+ handset – was there a previous one which went the same way as Prime Ministerial mobile phones? (N.B. a £99 claim for Sky TV was refused because he failed to provide a receipt).
Meanwhile, I was intrigued to note that in the itemised section of his phone bill for December 2008 to February 2009, he made a phone call to a number in Canterbury at 10.29pm on Christmas Eve which lasted nearly two hours…
Jonathan Isaby