‘Mrs Expenses’ Ann Keen claimed £12,000 for fourth office
Marie Woolf, Whitehall Editor Marie Woolf Whitehall Editor
THE health minister, Ann Keen, is facing a parliamentary inquiry after receiving £12,000 in expenses for an office at home, despite having three other official workplaces.Keen, a former parliamentary
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THE health minister, Ann Keen, is facing a parliamentary inquiry after receiving £12,000 in expenses for an office at home, despite having three other official workplaces.

Keen, a former parliamentary aide to Gordon Brown, received monthly cash payments of £250 for at least four years in an arrangement with the House of Commons authorities that did not require her to submit itemised receipts.

She enjoys the use of three other offices: one in parliament, an office at the Department of Health, and a constituency office in her Brentford and Isleworth seat in west London.

Her husband, Alan Keen, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston, also in west London, also received regular payments of £250 a month to fund an office at home during the same