London apartments that were leased out free of cost to politicians like John Prescott are laying empty and could be turned into civil servant offices, according to The Telegraph.
The three ‘grace-and-favour flats’, in Admiralty House, cost £173,000 a year in up-keep. The government is reluctant to allow MPs to use the spaces for free because of the high profile MPs’s expenses scandal last year, where ministers wrongfully used public money to maintain their flashy lifestyles. (more…)