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An MP claimed £17 on expenses for the cost of a Remembrance Day poppy wreath.
Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, billed the taxpayer for the tribute as "office costs", describing it as "necessary expenses".
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) said MPs were not allowed to make such claims and was seeking repayment from Miss Champion.
She admitted the claim "should never have been made" and would reimburse IPSA on Monday.
The TaxPayers' Alliance described it as "downright low".
Details of the expense from IPSA show the MP made the claim on 21 October 2014 for "Wreath for Remembrance Sunday".
It said it had "mistakenly processed" the claim after Miss Champion entered it under the office costs expenses category.
A spokesman for IPSA said: "We publish everything MPs claim even in circumstances like this and we'll be seeking repayment from the MP."
Andy Silvester, campaign director at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers will be outraged.
"Trying to put the bill on somebody else to honour our servicemen and women is downright low, but the fact that IPSA approved the claim shows how crushingly out of touch this overgrown monster of a quango is."
Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, billed the taxpayer for the tribute as "office costs", describing it as "necessary expenses".
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) said MPs were not allowed to make such claims and was seeking repayment from Miss Champion.
She admitted the claim "should never have been made" and would reimburse IPSA on Monday.
The TaxPayers' Alliance described it as "downright low".
Details of the expense from IPSA show the MP made the claim on 21 October 2014 for "Wreath for Remembrance Sunday".
It said it had "mistakenly processed" the claim after Miss Champion entered it under the office costs expenses category.
A spokesman for IPSA said: "We publish everything MPs claim even in circumstances like this and we'll be seeking repayment from the MP."
Andy Silvester, campaign director at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers will be outraged.
"Trying to put the bill on somebody else to honour our servicemen and women is downright low, but the fact that IPSA approved the claim shows how crushingly out of touch this overgrown monster of a quango is."
She will be thumbing through Natalie Bennett's book of excuses.
Actually i can't see the problem with this as she was on official duty - it wouldnt have been a problem if they had issued her with one in the same way Cameroon , Clegg and miliband get them.
However .... she IS the uber superior MP for Rotherham who found it hugely amusing when the socialist workers party baracaded the UKIP into their offices - thereby effectively condoning the elimination of free speech.
As MP from ROtherham she should be mighty ashamed and keep a very low profile after the appaling goings on by the police and Labour councellors in covering up the child abuse.
However .... she IS the uber superior MP for Rotherham who found it hugely amusing when the socialist workers party baracaded the UKIP into their offices - thereby effectively condoning the elimination of free speech.
As MP from ROtherham she should be mighty ashamed and keep a very low profile after the appaling goings on by the police and Labour councellors in covering up the child abuse.
how thick can you be to risk bad claims this close to election.
It's unlikely she will come out of this smelling of roses unless she can get them filed under travelling expenses.
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