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DO MPS DESERVE THEIR MASSIVE PERKS?

Wednesday January 30,2008


MEMBERS of Parliament faced demands last night to come clean over exactly how much taxpayers' cash is being pocketed by their relatives.


Campaigners suspect a significant slice of Westminster's annual £53.1million salarie's pot for MPs' secretaries and researchers is going to immediate family members.

Dozens of MPs employ their spouses and children in Parliamentary and constituency offices on salaries up to £40,000 a year. But the payments to family members are shrouded in secrecy.

So do you think MPs get too many perks? Should we be forking out for them to fund their families? And do you think MPs do a good enough job for the amount they get paid?

Have YOUR say!