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Revealed: House of Commons Speaker's luxury life of taxpayer-funded 1st class flights, five-star hotels and chauffeurs
By DAVID CHURCHILL, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Published: 22:02, 3 March 2025 | Updated: 23:33, 3 March 2025
The lavish scale of the Commons Speaker’s globe-trotting is today laid bare, with thousands of pounds splashed on first class flights, limousine firms and five-star resorts.
A list of Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s expenses reveals he blew more than £180,000 of taxpayers’ cash on flights in two years.
It shows he never travels in economy, opting for first or business class seats – even for short-haul trips to Dublin and Italy.
He also chartered a private plane during a jaunt to the paradise Caribbean island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory.
The MP for Chorley has shelled out thousands of pounds to stay at luxurious resorts and hotels around the globe, including The St Regis in Doha, Westin Grand in the Cayman Islands and Ritz-Carlton in Los Angeles. The hotels and resorts Sir Lindsay stayed in were up to £900 a night.
The list, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, shows that during the LA trip in February 2023 he lavished more than £3,000 on chauffeur-driven cars.
Despite this, he also racked up a bill of £270 with local taxi app Lyft.
He also splashed more than £4,500 on chauffeur-driven vehicles during a trip to Canberra, Australia a month earlier.
The MP for Chorley, England has shelled out thousands of pounds to stay at luxurious resorts and hotels around the globe, including The St Regis in Doha
Sir Lindsay's five-day trip to the Cayman Islands last summer was among the more eye-catching, totalling £22,785. Pictured: Swimming in the Pool at the Westin Grand in the Cayman Islands
One ‘subsistence’ bill at The St Regis in Doha totalled more than £800.
He also racked up a £400 meal and drinks bill at the five-star Hotel Due Torri in Verona, Italy. His room at the Hotel Due Torri for the G7 Speakers’ Conference in September last year was £630 a night.
In December, the Mail revealed Sir Lindsay has billed taxpayers more than £250,000 for trips in just two years.
He has splashed the sum on 19 foreign jaunts since October 2022, making him the most well-travelled Commons Speaker in history.
It led to him being branded ‘long-haul Hoyle’ and sparked accusations that he had been ‘swanning around like he’s the Foreign Secretary’.
But the list, obtained via Freedom of Information requests, breaks down the extravagant sums.
His five-day trip to the Cayman Islands last summer was among the more eye-catching, totalling £22,785.
This included £15,806 on business class flights with British Airways for him and two staff.
He splashed the sum on 19 foreign jaunts since October 2022, making him the most well-travelled Commons Speaker in history.
The journey was made for meetings with his counterpart there. They stayed at the luxurious Westin Grand Cayman, which has sweeping views over the Caribbean Sea. The accommodation bill totalled £6,400 while his room was £679 a night.
And during a trip to Ottawa to meet his Canadian counterpart, he stayed at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel at a cost of £893 a night.
Accommodation totalled £8,656.65 for the trip, with £15,000 spent on BA and Air Canada business class flights for him and two staff.
He also stayed at the Hotel Realm, which describes itself as ‘Canberra’s finest five-star luxury hotel’.
John O’Connell, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Sir Lindsay’s life of luxury is looking increasingly unsustainable, given the stratospheric credit card bills he’s tapping up taxpayers for… It’s possible to travel in comfort at a much lower cost than this.’
A spokesman for the Speaker said: ‘The Speaker is an ambassador for the House of Commons and has a responsibility to explain and promote the work of the House, and to represent it at high-profile state events and inter-Parliamentary conferences.’
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