NAMED: The 169 MPs who voted YES to the Bedroom Tax after claiming up to £25K EACH in accommodation expenses.

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169 of the MPs that voted YES to the Bedroom Tax on Tuesday evening, claimed up to £25k EACH in their own “spare bedroom” expenses.

The highest claim, Richard Bacon’s whopping £25k in 2012-13, could pay the Bedroom Tax for up to 30 families in his constituency for a whole year.

His constituency is a three hour commute from the House of Commons, yet his accommodation expenses bill averages £450 a week. Worse yet is Stephen Barclay, whose constituency in Cambridgeshire is less than two hours away – and has the fourth highest claim on the list at over £24,000 last year.

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'Three hours' is not a commute. Parliamentary sessions often run late and what do we really want? MPs splattered all over the motorway having fallen asleep at the wheel? All kinds of people who work unsociable hours or far from home get put up by their organisations in hotels or company apartments.