Legg report costs more than the sums to be repaid

If you were bothered by the parliamentary expenses scandal because it was a waste of taxpayers' money, you may want to look away now.

The cost of running Legg review into MP's expenses is higher than the money reclaimed from MPs.

Total Cost - £1.16 million

Total Re-payments - £1.12million (The figure after successful appeals)

Therefore, the taxpayer is now £40k worse off than if we had simply written off past over-claims and reformed the parliamentary expenses system for future claims.

I'd love to know the breakdown of that £1.14m cost, to see just how they managed to spend so much of taxpayer’s money reading documents. I'm sure there would've been many people willing to offer their time for free to do those jobs!