Councillors Claim Expenses For Walking

'Councillors are paying themselves expenses for walking to meetings, claiming the move will help the environment. Elected members of at least two local authorities have introduced payments from the public purse for travelling on foot, as an alternative to the milage allowances they can claim for driving their own cars, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Councillors at Braintree district council, in Essex, are entitled to claim £1 every time they travel on foot to official meetings or functions. Their counterparts at Weymouth and Portland borough council, Dorset, can claim travel expenses at a uniform rate of 40p-a-mile regardless of whether they walk, cycle or drive their car.'

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