A Tory MP who touts his green credentials asked for NINE PENCE in expenses for a car journey of 330 yards.
Records show Alex Stafford put in another six mileage claims for journeys that set him back less than £1 within four months of being elected in December.
They emerged soon after he described reducing “reliance on fossil fuels” as a “key challenge of the decade”.
The Tory MP for Rother Valley, also claimed £97 for a rail ticket for wife Natalie to travel from their former home in London to the South Yorks seat.
Local campaigner Michael Sylvester said: “I knew southerners were soft but can’t they walk a 1/5th of a mile?”
Former Labour councillor Emma Wallis tweeted: “Well I never! Didn’t take Alex Stafford, the shiny new Tory MP for Rother Valley, long to clamber aboard the gravy train, did it?”
Figures from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority show Mr Stafford has claimed for three journeys of less than one mile.
The MP said the 9p journey was “part of a longer journey but broken into three parts”.
He added: “It is important all the work I do is open and transparent. All my travel is automatically recorded.”
