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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:30 am Post subject: Mr & Mrs Expenses and family |
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| Quote: | | Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes |
| Quote: | | She was a member of the Young Socialists National Council for four years from 1960, and was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in 1973. She was first elected to the House of Commons at the Mid Staffordshire by-election on 22 March 1990, which followed the suicide of the sitting Conservative MP John Heddle. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Heal
| Quote: | | She worked in the NHS before training as a Registered nurse at Ashford General Hospital in Ashford, Middlesex, and won prizes as Nurse of the Year and Children's Nurse of the Year |
Who gave the prizes?
| Quote: | | Keen first stood for Parliament in 1987 and tried for the Brentford & Isleworth seat in 1992, though was unsuccessful on both occasions. For the following election she was again selected, on this occasion through an all-women shortlist. [1] This method of selection was declared unlawful in January 1996 as it breached sex discrimination laws.[2] |
| Quote: | Nick-named "Mr and Mrs Expenses" with her MP husband Alan Keen, the couple bought an apartment in an exclusive development on the South Bank of the Thames using their combined second homes allowance, to claim £175,000 of taxpayers’ money. The couple bought the flat in May 2002 after spending six months in a London hotel, using two mortgages: one loan was for £350,000 from HSBC; the second loan was raised by re-mortgaging their property in Brentford, also through HSBC. The couple never submitted a single receipt, instead sending two sheets of A4 to the expenses department every month, claiming £1,643.50 each month throughout 2002-03 and £1,699 each throughout 2003-04. They also took out life insurance policies worth £430,000 and claimed back the £867.57 a month premiums on their expenses - a practice which is now banned.[3]
In the financial year 2007/8 Keen again hit the headlines, having the highest expenses claim of any MP excluding transport costs (which disproportionately affect MPs from remote constituencies).[4]
In 2009 the Keen's empty constituency home in Hounslow was occupied by housing activists with the aim of turning it over to the homeless, and to refugees in response to Mrs Keen's support for the British invasion of Iraq. [5] The £385,000 three-bedroom terrace was being renovated whilst they stayed in their central home London near Parliament which they billed the public £137,679 for.[6] After an alleged falling out with the builders the house was left empty, but at a local residents meeting a member of the public alerted activists to the location of the house; it was legally and legitimately occupied by squatters on the 27th of June. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Keen
| Quote: | | Although born in London, Alan Keen was brought up in the Grangetown and Redcar area of the north east of England. He went to Sir William Turners Grammar School (now the Connections campus of Redcar & Cleveland College) on Coatham Road in Coatham, Redcar - in the same school year as Paul Daniels. He joined the British Army in 1960 and after nearly three years of service, in 1963, he started his career with the Fire Protection Industry where he remained until his election to the House of Commons. He also worked as a tactical scout for Middlesbrough F.C. for eighteen years. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keen
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