John Bercow

Former Commons Speaker John Bercow Spent £1,000 on a taxi and £12,000 parties for employees leaving in the run-up to his retirement.

Mr Bercow, who stood down before the election, Spent £7,000 on a visit to US in his last months in The Job .

His expenses were to demand freedom of information.

A Commons spokesman for the 260-mile Round Trip from London to Nottingham, said that, in April, was made by taxi instead of train for safety reasons.

Mr Bercow, who was accompanied by an aide-de-camp, to deliver travelled to Nottingham a speech at the Political Studies Association annual conference.

The speech was about how the Parliament should respond to the "anti-policy" era, and what might look like the Parliament of The Future .

Mr Bercow had travelled from London to Nottingham by train, in 2018, for a meeting of the UK Youth Parliament , at a cost of £70,.

"Because of the increased security concerns for the safety of the MPs, Mr Bercow has been advised it was safer for him to travel to Nottingham Trent University by taxi rather than by train", a Commons spokeswoman.

In may of 2019, Mr Bercow Spent £7,000 on a visit to Washington DC, took a lecture on the "role of Parliament in today's UK" a "Think Tank ", a trip in Virginia and Boston.

The former speaker, the expenses also included a £118-to-month Sky TV subscription for the speaker of The House , The Apartment within The Palace of Westminster, where Mr Bercow and His Family lived.

The biggest effort in the last few months by Mr Bercow in his nine-year tenure as speaker was to leave staff parties.

The £ 12,000 bill included an invoice for £3,168 for a Retirement Party for the speaker's chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin.

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Mr Bercow also Spent £2,376 to a retirement-party for The Commons invitations Secretary in February, and a month later Another £3,187 for a formal farewell to the clerk of The House of David Natzler.

In may, the Speaker's official account Spent £3,696 on the indication of the principal clerk of the table Office a send-off.

A Commons spokeswoman for The Box-Office-funded pension receptions for executives said: "many times in The Past . "

Before standing down on 31. October, Mr Bercow to settle his official account 234 Drinks £statement at a reception for the Panel chairs, members, help him, take care of the parliamentary debates. He also Spent £560 on a lunch for his colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland .

The speaker is not subject to the same rules as to costs, as other MPs whose claims for food and drink are capped.

Mr Bercow faced was the control of its expenditure in previous years - in 2018, he Spent £13,000 on an official visit to Canada and a similar amount in 2014 on a trip to Australia.

The former speaker has logged in to a public area of the Agency since his retirement from The Chair . He also has A Number of lucrative appearances in the media, among others as an expert for Sky News on the General elections, the night in December.

His successor as speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle , has vowed to bring a "different style" to The Job .

Source of news: bbc.com