Peter Bassett: MPs’ Travel Bills - what The Post reported and what it didn’t

The Post’s report on MPs’ travel costs looks, at first glance, like accountability journalism. It is full of numbers, tables, quarterly breakdowns and party responses. What it lacks is judgement — and more importantly, curiosity.

The headline figure is that MPs spent $3.4 million on domestic travel in the nine months to September 2025, with ministers adding another $1.86 million.

Readers are told this works out at “more than $1 million every three months”, but the figures are scattered across so many paragraphs that no one ever sees the full cost in one place.