The fees office agreed that the Labour MP for Leicester South should not be liable for the £472.59 bailiff’s bill and reimbursed him.
Sir Peter also blamed the fees office. He said: “It was entirely the fees office’s fault that the bill for office rent had not been paid. They had failed to process the original bill – sent almost a month earlier for direct payment by them – or the resubmitted bill sent to them for payment nine days before the bailiffs arrived.”
Sir Peter, a former member of the Audit Commission, also fell behind on the business rates for his constituency office and was sent a final reminder by Leicester City Council – of which he used to be leader – before it was paid. Mrs Soulsby is paid £25,000 a year by the taxpayer to work as his secretary.
While in London on parliamentary business, Sir Peter and his wife live in a luxury apartment situated in the former headquarters of MI6.
Sir Peter is reimbursed more than £2,000 a month in mortgage interest payments on the flat in the Perspective building. He initially rented a flat in Kennington, south London, for £1473.33 a month. After his election, Sir Peter began furnishing the property, spending more than £1,150 over a two-week period.
In September 2006 Sir Peter bought the apartment in the Perspective building for £380,000 and designated this as his second home.
He was reimbursed £12,826 for moving costs including stamp duty, as well as his monthly mortgage interest payments of £2,057.33 – well above the limit of £1,205 now being proposed – and a quarterly service charge of £831.58 on the apartment.
Sir Peter said that his claims were “reasonable”, where as I and most taxpayers think he is a grasping cunt.
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