It is my understanding that the remuneration board is currently running a consultation on whether AMs should be allowed to claim maximum accommodation expenses in Cardiff if they live outside Wales.

 

I feel this is will allow Neil Hamilton to claim for furnished accommodation in Cardiff as he travels from his stately home in Wiltshire.

 

This makes me angry.

 

Simply because the accommodation allowance is supposed to help AMs whose constituencies are a significant journey away from the Senedd so they can work effectively both in their constituencies and in Cardiff, not to help AMs travel into Wales from their £1.4m manor houses in England.