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Revealed: The nine MPs claiming Amazon premium rate service on their expenses

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NINE MPs have used their Parliamentary expenses to claim for Amazon Prime subscriptions, new figures have revealed.

membership offering longitudinal savings on timeous delivery costs.”

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which handles expense claims, said the subscriptions could be claimed but MPs must “justify that the subscription is primarily used for parliamentary purposes”.

SNP MPs Stuart Blair Donaldson, Lisa Cameron and Brendan O’Hara and Tories James Gray, Marcus Fysh and Craig Mackinlay submitted claims for the premium subscription this year.

Tory MPs Will Quince and Scott Mann submitted claims in 2015-16 and Labour’s Mary Creagh did so in 2014.

Tory MP James Gray has claimed for the service two years in a row.

MPs have had to publish details of claims since the 2009 expenses scandal. MPs’ salaries are due to rise from £74,962 to £76,011 next month.

Mr Fysh and Mr Gray did not respond to inquiries last night.

Members of the online retailer’s premium service pay £79 a year to get faster delivery and access to a massive streaming library of Hollywood blockbusters and TV shows including Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour.

Some MPs said they claimed for it by mistake or were caught in a “subscription trap” after agreeing to a free trial.

Some have repaid the subscription to Parliamentary authorities.

But the SNP’s Lisa Cameron defended billing taxpayers. She said: “With the opening of my constituency offices, on a number of occasions equipment was ordered through prime