In your article of May 16 regard-ing MPs’ expenses, Annette Brooke MP stated that she was aware that some people were buying flats and almost becoming property developers at the taxpayer’s expense: that “didn’t seem right” to her.

I’d like to know why that was the first time we’d heard this from her. Why in her 2,469 appearances in Parliament to date recorded on Theyworkforyou has she never raised the issue?

Will Burstow, Hillside Road, Wallisdown