MPs Allowance Expenditure April 2007 to March 2008

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Brief Description

MPs Allowance Expenditure from April 2007 to March 2008. The map is coloured to show the amounts claimed by MPs in each constituency.

Detailed Information

This shows MP's allowance expenditure from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008. The data is taken from the UK Parliament website:

http://www.parliament.uk/about_commons/hocallowances/hocallowances06.cfm

The link above also contains more detailed information about the rules governing MPs' allowances and how much can be claimed for in each of the 8 categories.

The map is coloured to show the total amounts being claimed by MPs in each constituency.

This information does not show members' travel expenses, which are in a separate table to the allowance expenditure.

The total expenditure for all 646 MPs is £86,781,205

The mean is £134,544.50

The maximum claim was for £167,306 by Ann Keen of Brentford and Isleworth

The minimum claim was for £40,433 by Philip Hollobone of Kettering

The data for the Crewe and Nantwich constituency (Edward Timpson) and the Glenrothes constituency (Lindsay Roy) are missing from the original dataset.

This map is designed to be used with a KML overlay showing the same data so that you can click on the individual areas to obtain further information. The combined map can be viewed at the following link:

http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?s=DGxRpSZcsKExAjxGTAwMDAxGPApcHLHLHd