17. Letter to the Commissioner from
Rt Hon Andrew Mackay, 12 February 2010
Thank you for your response of 26th January raising
some additional questions. As you will appreciate I have needed
to devote time to the Legg recommendations and subsequent appeal
which have now been published. I will therefore require a little
more time to see if I can find any more relevant information to
answer questions one and three. Meanwhile it might be helpful
if I answered the remaining questions as follows:-
Two. The only dependent
child living with us is our nine year old son [name] who attends
school in London. He would normally move with his mother between
[the London and Bromsgrove properties]. As mentioned in my initial
response it is easy to commute between [the Bromsgrove property]
and my constituency with the route being virtually all motorway
or dual carriageway. The estimated figures I supplied to you show
that I spend slightly more nights in [the Bromsgrove property]
than [the London property]. There would be some Sunday nights
and days in the September recess (when [our son] is back at school)
that I remain in [Bromsgrove] to attend to family commitments,
mentioned in my previous reply, whilst my wife has returned to
the London property with [our son].
Four. This is quite straightforward.
As previously mentioned in my last reply I took advice about ACA
arrangements from [the then Head of the Fees Office] soon after
marrying Julie Kirkbride. However MPs were only required to inform
the Fees Office they shared accommodation with another MP at a
much later date. As I answered in my last response I could not
believe this referred to married couples as it was self evident
so I did not register the fact at that time.
Five. I have always claimed
for the full mortgage interest on my second home.
I will revert back to you on the remaining two questions
after I return from the half term recess.
12 February 2010
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