- because it's too expensive to make them redundant! Read More HereMr Maude told the Public Administration Select Committee that current arrangements make it 'prohibitively expensive' to offer redundancy to some civil servants, leaving them 'in limbo'. 'In most departments there are people for whom there is no job,’ he said.
Francis Maude you will remember famously claimed almost £35,000 in two years for mortgage interest payments on a London flat when he owned a house just a few hundred yards away. He owned the house outright but in 2006 took out a £345,000 mortgage on the flat about one minute’s walk away. He then rented out the house and began claiming mortgage interest payments on the flat which is in a grade II listed building with a gym and 24-hour concierge.
Mr Maude also claimed, and was paid, £387.50 for the cost of moving his effects down the road from the house to the flat.
He claimed £18,112.50 in mortgage interest payments for the year 2006-07, £1,790 for council tax, £2,237 for a service charge and £820 for cleaning.
A further £9,801.78 was claimed for mortgage interest payments from April 1 to Aug 31, 2007.
The senior Tory MP then submitted a claim for the mortgage interest payments for the remainder of the 2007-08 financial year, which came to £13,070.96.
In a note to the House of Commons fees office he said he knew there was not enough left in his ACA account to cover the payments.
The fees office paid out £6,748.52, up to the maximum of his allowance.
The 55-year-old MP is independently wealthy. He was previously a managing director of Morgan Stanley, a director of Salomon Brothers and a non-executive director of Asda during the 1990s.
