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28th June 2001, Page 28
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prices, but is always "out of town" on important business, there may be a reason for it. MPs who use their private cars for business journeys enjoy privileged index-linked business mileage rates while the upper limit for private motorists was frozen this year.

So generous are these rates that an MP covering 20,000 business miles is entitled to a cool £10,600, however small his car. This contrasts with what we poor mortals can recialm—botween .t5,400 and .f.8,280. Mtn "Two Jags, Two Jabs" Prescott must be rubbing his hands with glee.