PEERS are set to be able to charge taxpayers for hotel stays for the first time – on top of their £342 attendance allowance.
PEERS are set to be able to charge taxpayers for hotel stays for the first time – on top of their £342 attendance allowance.
“We recommend that a new allowance should be introduced for overnight accommodation for members from outside Greater London,” the report said. The Tufton Street think tank Taxpayers’ Alliance hit out at the changes, telling the Mail that “taxpayers are fed up with the growing cost of legislators”. He added: “Parliament should do the right thing and scrap this change.”
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