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Grieve buys expensive french sugar lumps but no fresh milk
DOMINIC Grieve has a penchant for biscuits of all types, and he prefers dried milk in his coffee.
That's about the most interesting thing you can say about his office expenses for 2007-8 which were published online on June 18th along with those of every other MP.
Mr Grieve has submitted claims for chocolate chip cookies, lemon shortcake, and ginger nuts.
If one were looking to criticise him for extravagance though it would have to be for his sugar - he buys luxury La Perruche wrapped sugar lumps in both white and brown at £1.79 for 500g while we at the Advertiser make do with Tate and Lyle which costs 54 pence for the same weight.
However his taste in milk is decidedly down market - he's claimed not for fresh milk but for just one jar of Marvel dried during the year.
All of these items are from Waitrose but the address on the receipts are blanked out, so we are unable to reveal which branch Mr Grieve uses.
His other office claims are even less interesting - an assortment of pens, pencils and pencil sharpeners, a water cooler, phone and blackberry bills, £700 to put scan correspondence onto the computer system, and around 4,000 House of Commons complimentary slips per year.
Bizarrely, even the address of the Beaconsfield Conservative Association is blanked out on its invoices for £1,500 per month for office space.
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