Claim: Mrs Beckett found herself in trouble with the Fees Office after 
attempting
 to claim £600 for hanging baskets and pot plants
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8039273.stm#beckett_margaret
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Labour accused of secret plot to make Beckett next Speaker

Whips' Office trying to limit reforms that would give MPs more
power to challenge the Government

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6548801.ece?&EMC-Bltn=HCPDVA

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I have not doubt that the new Speaker should be  a person,
WHO IS NOT on the list of fraudsters.  And  Margaret Beckett
 is the one who still maintains that she  hasn't done anything
wrong.  Hasn't she?
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Claim: Mrs Beckett found herself in trouble with the Fees Office after 
attempting to claim £600 for hanging baskets and pot plants

An official informed her in a letter that expenses had to be "wholly, 
exclusively and necessarily incurred to enable you to stay overnight away 
from your main home". She claimed second home allowances of £72,537 from 
2004 to 2008, despite having no mortgage or rent to pay on her constituency 
home in Derby. As environment secretary and foreign secretary, Mrs Beckett 
was living at the grace and favour Admiralty House in Whitehall, which 
enabled her to rent out her London flat.

Response: The former foreign secretary said: "Grace and favour homes are not 
rent free, we are taxed on them as a benefit in kind."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8039273.stm#beckett_margaret
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