Labour’s Simon Danczuk slammed for claiming £5 expenses for memorial flowers
The Rochdale MP is currently suspended from the Labour Party following sexting scandal involving a teenager
Suspended Labour MP Simon Danczuk was under fire last night after claiming for memorial flowers on expenses, The Sun can reveal.
New data published by the Commons watchdog showed a claim for a fiver from the public purse to send a bunch of flowers to a “remembrance ceremony”.
It came just months after the suspended sexting MP for Rochdale was forced to pay back more that £11,000 in misclaimed expenses.
But the MP insisted last night that the claim was made in error by his office, and he had not received the money.
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He claimed to have “documentary proof” that he had flagged up the issue with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
Also buried in Mr Danczuk’s latest expenses data was a £2 claim for “tissues” for “upset constituents”.
Defending the claim last night, Danczuk told The Sun: “We deal with a high volume of emotional cases at many of my surgeries, and sometimes people do get upset.”
The controversial MP remains suspended from the Labour Party after he was caught up in a sexting scandal involving a teenage girl.
He has not been far from the headlines this year, after he was exposed for wrongly claiming £11,583.20 in accommodation costs.
Mr Danczuk was also forced to pay back £96.50 he claimed in car parking costs while on holiday in Spain.
