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Financial documents released by the House of Commons on Monday revealed that the Canadian members of Parliament have lessened their spending on travel, though their office budgets continue to increase mainly due to the mounting costs of staff salaries, taxpayer-funded advertising and constituency mail campaigns.
The documents revealed the MPs’ yearly spending in completely explained and detailed manner, more illustrative than ever before. These revealing documents have been unveiled at a time when the spending of MPs and senators is already under inspection by the RCMP probes claims of several senators. Spending’s of each MP are preapproved by the House of Commons, which is also responsible for disclosing limits on how many flights an MP can take and what their offices can spend, in accordance to the size of their riding and other considerable aspects.
The documents showed that spending of each MP varied substantially, though a completely summed spending of office expenses of all MP from April 1, 2012, to March 31, 2013, was accumulated up to $123-million, i.e. an increment from $121-million the year before. However, it is necessary to mention here that almost half of this spending is used for staff salaries, while the remaining amount costs for travel, office supplies, advertising and a residence in Ottawa. Classified into three biggest party caucuses, the Liberals were found to have highest average spending at $404,365, followed by the Conservatives at $398,235 and the NDP at $394,477.
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