15 months - Prison sentence of Timothy Harris, a thug from Northamptonshire, for benefit fraud which cost the taxpayer £54,000.
1 week – Time for which David Laws, a former cabinet minister from Somerset, has been excluded from the Commons after paying back £56,000 he wrongly claimed from taxpayers in benefits.
Private Eye – Number Crunching
Part 2
0.13% - Percentage of the general population now in prison.
0.61% - Percentage of members of the last House of Commons now in prison.
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