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Named and shamed:

MPs who voted to keep

their generous expenses

as Brown expresses

disappointment

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:14 PM on 04th July 2008

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Gordon Brown today said he was 'disappointed' at the result of the vote on expenses in which MPs voted to carry on spending taxpayers' money on furniture and home improvements.

More than 30 senior Government figures were among the 146 Labour MPs who voted to keep their generous expenses.

They included Andy Burnham - Culture; Caroline Flint - Housing; Paul Murphy - Wales; Jacqui Smith - Home Secretary; and Shaun Woodward - Northern Ireland.

Cashing in: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith,

Culture Secretary Andy Burnham and

Housing Minister Caroline Flint

all voted not to change their expenses

The Prime Minister came under fire for ducking the vote last night in which MPs rejected moves to tighten the rules on their generous expenses.
The vote came just hours after MPs had agreed to peg their pay rise back to 2.25 per cent.

Other ministers and whips who voted not to change their expenses:

Nick Brown - Deputy Chief Whip
Alan Campbell - Whip
Angela Eagle - Treasury Minister
Maria Eagle - Ministry of Justice
Beverley Hughes - Children, Schools and Families
Tessa Jowell - Olympics
Ivan Lewis - Health
Tommy McAvoy - Whip
Stephen McCabe - Whip
Anne McGuire - Department for Work and Pensions
Tony McNulty - Home Office
Gillian Merron - International Development
Mike O'Brien - DWP
James Plaskitt - DWP
Bridget Prentice - Ministry of Justice
Gerry Sutcliffe - Sport
Gareth Thomas - International Development
Derek Twigg - Defence
Kitty Ussher - Treasury
Claire Ward - Whip
Tom Watson - Cabinet Office
Dave Watts - Whip
Rosie Winterton -Transport
Phil Woolas - Environment
Iain Wright - Communities and Local Government

Vote: MPs decided to keep their 'John Lewis list' expense claim

'The Prime Minister has always made clear that he is in favour of any move that would enhance transparency,' Mr Brown's spokesman said.

He said that Mr Brown had decided not to vote himself as it became clear that the reform plans were going to be defeated.

Instead he decided to carry on working in Downing Street as it was his last working day in London before next week's G8 summit in Japan.

'There was a lot of Government business to get through,' the spokesman said.

He refused to be drawn on those ministers - as well as Mr Brown's parliamentary aides Ian Austin and Angela Smith - who voted against the changes.

'How individual MPs vote is a matter for them. MPs were voting on a free vote,' he said.

During the vote, one of the Prime Minister’s aides allegedly told Shadow Chancellor George Osborne to ‘**** off, you toff’, while Conservative leader David Cameron was embroiled in a spat with a female Labour MP.

Brown was also criticised for failing to swing his Cabinet, whose members have a basic salary of £138,000, behind the expenses clean-up.

Mr Brown's Commons aides Ian Austin and Angela Smith were among those who voted to keep their 'snouts in the trough'.
They were joined by Ulster Secretary Shaun Woodward whose wife, Camilla Sainsbury, has a reported personal fortune of £100million.

The review was spearheaded by Speaker Michael Martin after a series of recent expenses controversies. 

Under the planned shake-up, the second homes allowance would have been capped at £19,600 a year to cover accommodation, with a £30 daily subsistence rate.

As a result of the vote, the Additional Costs Allowance, worth £24,006 to cover the costs of living near Parliament and running a second home, stays in place. 
proposed ban on claims under the so-called John Lewis list was also thrown out, so MPs will continue to be free to charge iPods, dishwashers and improvements for their second homes to the public purse.

Instead of a plan for external audits on expenses claims covering up to a quarter of MPs every year, each member will face internal financial checks just once every four years.

Meanwhile, MPs backed a £6million package to improve their constituency offices, more than doubling the cost of their offices outside Westminster from £2.8million.

Inner London MPs will get a £7,500 annual allowance – up from £2,916 – while MPs representing outer London constituencies will still be able to claim the full Additional Costs Allowance, instead of it being halved as proposed.

The 'John Lewis list' is an unofficial guide used by the Parliamentary authorities to determine how much MPs may claim from the taxpayer for kitting out their second homes. 

The list of 38 items is based on prices at the department store and allows MPs to claim for items including a £10,000 kitchen and a £750 TV.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'MPs have missed a crucial opportunity to restore faith in Parliament.

The MPs who voted to keep their generous expense accounts were:

Labour
Nick Ainger (Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South)
Graham Allen (Nottingham North)
David Anderson (Blaydon)
Janet Anderson (Rossendale & Darwen)
Ian Austin (Dudley North)
Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West)
Gordon Banks (Ochil & Perthshire South)
Kevin Barron (Rother Valley)
Margaret Beckett (Derby South)
Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe
Liz Blackman (Erewash)
Roberta Blackman-Woods (Durham, City of)
Bob Blizzard (Waveney)
David Borrow (Ribble South (South Ribble)
Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Colin Burgon (Elmet), Andy Burnham (Leigh)
Stephen Byers (Tyneside North)
Alan Campbell (Tynemouth)
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley)
Ben Chapman (Wirral South)
David Chaytor (Bury North)
Tom Clarke (Coatbridge
Chryston & Bellshill)
David Clelland (Tyne Bridge)
Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
Ann Coffey (Stockport)
Harry Cohen (Leyton & Wanstead)
Michael Connarty (Linlithgow & Falkirk East)
Rosie Cooper (Lancashire West)
Ann Cryer (Keighley)
John Cummings (Easington)
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South)
Tony Cunningham (Workington
Wayne David (Caerphilly)
Ian Davidson (Glasgow South West)
Janet Dean (Burton)
Frank Dobson (Holborn & St Pancras)
Brian Donohoe (Ayrshire Central)
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West)
Angela Eagle (Wallasey)
Maria Eagle (Liverpool Garston)
Jeff Ennis (Barnsley East & Mexborough)
Bill Etherington (Sunderland North)
Caroline Flint (Don Valley)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Michael Foster (Worcester)
Michael Jabez Foster (Hastings & Rye)
Mike Gapes (Ilford South)
Dr Ian Gibson (Norwich North)
Linda Gilroy (Plymouth Sutton)
Nia Griffith (Llanelli)
Andrew Gwynne (Denton & Reddish)
Mike Hall (Weaver Vale)
David Hamilton (Midlothian)
Dai Havard (Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney)
Stephen Hesford (Wirral West)
Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East & Washington West)
Jimmy Hood (Lanark & Hamilton East)
George Howarth (Knowsley North & Sefton East)
Beverley Hughes (Stretford & Urmston)
Joan Humble (Blackpool North & Fleetwood)
Dr Brian Iddon (Bolton South East)
Eric Illsley (Barnsley Central)
Adam Ingram (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow)
Brian Jenkins (Tamworth)
Diana Johnson (Hull North)
Kevan Jones (Durham North)
Martyn Jones (Clwyd South)
Tessa Jowell (Dulwich & West Norwood)
Eric Joyce (Falkirk)
Alan Keen (Feltham & Heston)
David Kidney (Stafford)
Peter Kilfoyle (Liverpool Walton)
Bob Laxton (Derby North)
Tom Levitt (High Peak)
Ivan Lewis (Bury South)
Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central)
Ian Lucas (Wrexham)
Tommy McAvoy (Rutherglen & Hamilton West)
Stephen McCabe (Birmingham Hall Green)
Christine McCafferty (Calder Valley)
Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East)
Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Portsmouth North)
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham & Morden)
James McGovern (Dundee West)
Anne McGuire (Stirling)
Shona McIsaac (Cleethorpes
Rosemary McKenna (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East)
Tony McNulty (Harrow East)
Denis MacShane (Rotherham)
Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr
Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West)
Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South)
Alan Meale (Mansfield)
Gillian Merron (Lincoln)
Andrew Miller (Ellesmere Port & Neston)
Madeleine Moon (Bridgend)
Jessica Morden (Newport East)
Elliot Morley (Scunthorpe)
George Mudie (Leeds East)
Denis Murphy (Wansbeck)
Paul Murphy (Torfaen)
Mike O'Brien (Warwickshire North)
Eddie O'Hara (Knowsley South)
Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock)
James Plaskitt (Warwick & Leamington)
Bridget Prentice (Lewisham East)
Gordon Prentice (Pendle)
Gwyn Prosser (Dover)
Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East)
Nick Raynsford (Greenwich & Woolwich)
John Robertson (Glasgow North West)
Terry Rooney (Bradford North)
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd)
Christine Russell (Chester, City of)
Alison Seabeck (Plymouth Devonport)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Jimmy Sheridan (Paisley & Renfrewshire North)
Angela C Smith (Sheffield Hillsborough)
Angela E Smith (Basildon), Jacqui Smith (Redditch),
Anne Snelgrove (Swindon South
John Spellar (Warley)
Phyllis Starkey (Milton Keynes South West)
Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East), Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston)
Gerry Sutcliffe (Bradford South)
Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside)
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West)
Emily Thornberry (Islington South & Finsbury)
Don Touhig (Islwyn)
Derek Twigg (Halton)
Kitty Ussher (Burnley)
Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
Lynda Waltho (Stourbridge)
Claire Ward (Watford)
Tom Watson (West Bromwich East)
Dave Watts (St Helens North)
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield)
Rosie Winterton (Doncaster Central)
Shaun Woodward (St Helens South)
Phil Woolas (Oldham East & Saddleworth)
David Wright (Telford)
Iain Wright (Hartlepool)
Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)

Conservative:
David Amess (Southend West)
James Arbuthnot (Hampshire North East)
Henry Bellingham (Norfolk North West)
Brian Binley (Northampton South)
Sir John Butterfill (Bournemouth West)
Christopher Chope (Christchurch)
John Greenway (Ryedale)
Gerald Howarth (Aldershot)
Bernard Jenkin (Essex North)
Julie Kirkbride (Bromsgrove)
Eleanor Laing (Epping Forest)
Anne McIntosh (Vale of York)
Andrew Mackay (Bracknell)
Andrew Rosindell (Romford)
Hugo Swire (Devon East)
Sir Peter Tapsell (Louth & Horncastle)
Angela Watkinson (Upminster)
Ann Widdecombe (Maidstone & The Weald)
David Wilshire (Spelthorne)
Lady Ann Winterton (Congleton),
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield)

Independent:
Dai Davies (Blaenau Gwent)
Robert Wareing (Liverpool West Derby)