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Welcome to my Parliamentary website which runs alongside my political website Ancram.com
I hope that you will find this website both useful and thought provoking. I have always believed that politics is about interactive dialogue and I hope that you will make use of this website in that spirit. |
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| Speech during the Iraq Debate - House of Commons |
| 24 January 2007 |
| Mr. Michael Ancram (Devizes) (Con): A year ago, I called for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. I did so because I believed that we had achieved everything that we positively could there. We had already been there for almost three... |
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Michael Ancram’s Additional Costs Allowance Claim for 2006-7
Recent newspaper stories about my expenses claim under this allowance are damaging misrepresentations of the facts upon which I am currently consulting my lawyers. All relevant items of the claim referred to, which was duly submitted to the appropriate Parliamentary authorities, were accompanied by receipts and were accepted as proper.
In previous years I have deliberately not claimed all the expenses I was entitled to under this allowance; nor will I in the current year. The additional costs for 2006-7 incurred in necessary repairs to damage to the exterior of my constituency house caused by wear and tear over a long period of time are by definition non-reoccurring.
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