John Bercow spent £172 on a journey costly travel arrangements of Commons Speaker
John Bercow fought back a tear as he paid his own tribute to the former Lib Dem leader John Bercow spent £172 on a journey of less than a mile, figures released by the House of Commons have revealed.
The cost of the 0.7 mile journey was disclosed in receipts published following a Freedom of Information request that expose the remarkable cost to the taxpayer of the Speaker’s travel arrangements.
Mr Bercow took an official car to travel to Canterbury to see Archbishop Justin Welby enthroned in 2013 at a cost to the taxpayer of £524.
A journey of 1.8 miles to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral set the taxpayer back by £158.
And the cost to the public purse for the Speaker to travel to the University of Bedfordshire to give a lecture on reforming Parliament following the “adapt ...