Legg Expenses stats by party
Following the release of the Legg report on MPs' expenses today, I have been taking a closer look at the breakdown of the amounts by party.
I have listed below the highest amount that has been decided should be repaid, the average amount for each of the 3 main parties (averaged across all their MPs who have been told to repay something, after appeal) and the percentage of MPs from each party who have to pay back something.
No party comes out of this well, I just thought it would be interesting to see the figures.
Thanks to Left Foot Forward and also Jessica Asato and Bhumi Purohit of Progress for helping with the data.
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No party comes out well, but some parties come out less well than others.
So while more than half of all MPs have had to repay money, less than 2 in 5 Lib Dem MPs had to.
Mark, I'd be interested to see you add the Independents to your table, since it looks from the BBC's graph that more than half of them have had huge claims!
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