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China Daily | Updated: 2010-02-05 07:59
Report slams expenses
British legislators exploited a culture of deference to file excessive expense claims for years, according to a report published yesterday that revived a politically damaging scandal months before an election.
The report recommended that 390 members of parliament pay back a total of more than a million pounds ($1.6 million) in taxpayers' money they received for claims ranging from mortgages for second homes to gardening costs and a duck house.
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