Millionairess Mp Had Own Private Police Force ; ( Paid for by Pounds 25,000 of Your Money ) Barbara Follett: Pounds 25,000 for Private Security
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BARBARA FOLLETT, one of Parliament's richest MPs, has claimed more than Pounds 25,000 for a private police force to patrol near her fourstorey home in London's Soho.
The Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism made taxpayers shell out for the extra security when she claimed she felt unsafe after being mugged and followed by a stalker.See the full content of this document
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Millionairess Mp Had Own Private Police Force ; ( Paid for by Pounds 25,000 of Your Money ) Barbara Follett: Pounds 25,000 for Private Security
She earns Pounds 95,000 a year, while her husband, the thriller writer Ken Follett, is said to earn about Pounds 13 million a year from his bestsellers.
The couple own a holiday home in Antigua, a house in Cape Town, a former rectory in her Hertfordshire constituency - their main residence - and a buy-to-let flat in South London. But the 66-year- old nominates the Soho property as her second home.Yet for all her wealth, Mrs Follett still submitted claims including Pounds 384 for sweeping eight chimneys - even though they do not emit smoke - and more than Pounds 500 to repair and clean a Chinese rug.Mrs Follett does not claim mortgage-interest payments but instead charges taxpayers for weekly 'mobile security' patrols at the property, upkeep of their CCTV equipment and a burglar-alarm system operated by BT....See the full content of this document
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