A slightly bigger scandal that never gets mentioned is the military being paid mileage to get to their work every day. Example a sgt on £35k per year living 10 miles from camp is entitled to claim 9 miles each way so 18 miles a day x 7 (regrdless of whether they work 7 days or not) x 40p per mile = £235 per month on top of salary! Every single person in the military who does not live on base is entitled to claim this. Their argument is their work is so important they need to make sure they have the money to get there! ON TOP of £35k. So why don't doctors or nurses or firemen or ambulance drivers or police get this too? Or better still, why not scrap this ludicrous payment and let them do what everyone else does, pay to get to work instead of eveyone else paying for them!

and they say we all in this together thats laugth

tight and a duck back side comes to mind

just plain petty greed

10p should be ashamed of herself being caught going on a bus

Claiming 10p is not worth the paperwork unless you are a poor impovrished Minister. Moreover one can claim for air, taxis, car, buses, bike but what about horse? Perhaps not if it's State owned.

Well I applaud this womans frugal nature and attention to detail I do hope she charged the person for her expertise in filling in the claim form, I didnt realise bus fares had become so cheap.
This girl should become priminister if she applies this frugal attitude to the public purse then we will be onto a real winner or is it rather another government minister who is penny wise and pound foolish??

The story says she claimed the fare on behalf of an intern. Political interns tend to be unpaid positions (my nephew spent some time last year as one) with only expenses provided.

Whilst I'd usually be one of the first to lay into politicians taking the mick with claims of this sort, I'd like the full story on this one

tight git