Politics · 10 hours ago
Hoyle Frustrated As Parliament Fix Could Hit £40bn
UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (official portrait of Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, 2024)
Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he is frustrated that Parliament spends more time surveying the crumbling Palace of Westminster than repairing it. A Commons committee warns restoration could cost up to forty billion pounds and take sixty-one years, with every year of delay costing taxpayers four hundred twenty million pounds. Hoyle said current law puts MPs in handcuffs until they approve the full plan.
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