Click here to read in full my expenses for 2008-09
and the first quarter of 2009-2010

Tom Levitt has agreed to repay to the House of Commons £389 as requested by Sir Thomas Legg. This is in respect of a sofa bed purchased in 2004 which Sir Thomas has deemed ‘extravagant’ even though the Fees Office approved it at the time. He said “Had I been asked to pay this balance at the time I would readily have agreed to do so.

Publication of Expenses

In response to public demand I am publishing the details of all my expenditure as an MP since 2004, which is the date to which Fees Office records go back. The files marked Office Costs(Incidental Expenses Provision) relate to my office costs. ACA (Additional Costs Allowance) is better known as the seond home allowance. in 2007 a new budget heading, the Communications Allowance, was introduced to pay for newsletters acording to strict rules.

Please note that some pages have been deleted by the Fees Office. These include compliments slips signed by my staff, blank letterheads and pages with no salient information. No financial information has been excluded in this way. Similarly the black 'redaction' boxes are also put in by the Fees Office. They hide information which is of a personal nature, opinion/comment or security sensitive such as telephone numbers or bank account information. This 'redaction' is allowed under Freedom of Information rules.

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In some cases you will see ACA claim forms duplicated. This is because the Fees Office has authorised initial payment on the original claim and a subsequent part payment on the copy. Some of the ACA claims relate to two months rather than one and thus appear high.

Further to the article in the Sunday Telegraph on 24 May, the wreath should never have been claimed, it was an error, it was not paid; and over 20 other wreaths have never been claimed or paid. The claim for work on my flat was never intended to be 'over the limit' but the bills did total above the limit. I did not expect to get the full amount back and I did not do so. And in no financial year as a whole was my mortgage interest claim overpaid; any adjustments were made during the course of the year to ensure this.

Questions have also been raised about MPs' Council Tax bills for our second homes. As soon as it was pointed out to me that I had claimed for 12 months Council Tax payments in 2006-07 and 2007-08, instead of ten, I paid themoney back to the Fees Office. This was £200 and £212 respectively. This error did not happen before 2006 and did not happen in 2008-09. As of late June 2009, I have made no second homes claims for the financial year 2009-10 at all so far. This is to give me time to check all my figures.

The following summary of my expenses is taken from www.theyworkforyou.com Please note: the 'Other Costs' figure relates to cover for a part time member of staff absent on maternity leave. The rank order figures give a different story from those in the Sunday Times where I was listed as 8th overall over the last four years. Figures in brackets are ranks. More detail of what each is supposed to cover can be found on the Parliament web site.

^* Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £3,556 (251st). Rail £7,351 (99th). Misc £6 (256th). Other: Rail £77 (131st).

^** Car £2,678 (348th). Rail £7,725 (74th). Air £588 (142nd). European £851 (48th).