MPs expenses: Margaret Beckett claimed three more times for hanging baskets
Margaret Beckett, the leading contender for the Commons Speakership, submitted three expenses claims for hanging baskets and garden plants totalling £1,380 despite having previously dismissed a similar claim as a "mistake".
By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 10:00PM BST 20 Jun 2009
Margaret Beckett - MPs expenses: Margaret Beckett claimed three more times for hanging baskets
Margaret Beckett
The former Cabinet minister, who resigned from the Government this month, claimed £543 in 2003, £512 in 2002 and £325 in 2001 for plants to go in hanging baskets, pots and flower beds at her constituency cottage in Derby.
Mrs Beckett, 66, last month told a jeering audience on BBC Question Time that an almost identical claim for £600 in 2005, which was rejected by House of Commons officials, had been a "mistake" that "should not have been made"
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