article_snippet: Every MP in the country is to get a brand new iPad after the general election, costing the tax payer £1million.
article_snippet: the House of Commons Commission Commons Commission claimed that offering all 650 ministers a new laptop or iPad Air 2, would actually save money.
article_snippet: Currently 209 MPs have taxpayer-funded tablets with the understanding 209 MPs use 209 MPs for working while on the move in Parliament.
article_snippet: In 2013, the House of Commons Commission agreed to a recommendation from the Commons Work and Pensions Committee that 'a tablet and a laptop should be the first pieces of equipment offered to all members after the 2015 election'.
article_snippet: Commons Commission assessed a range of tablets with prices ranging from £100 to £600 and where they decided on the Apple iPad Air 2.
article_snippet: The cost of supplying the new iPads would be £200,000 a year over the life of the next Parliament.
article_snippet: the House of Commons Commission Commons Commission said that buying the 650 MPs an iPad Air 2 each, worth £499, will save money . '
highlights_snippet: Every MP in the country is to be offered a brand new iPad worth £499 each .
  
highlights_snippet: The cost to the tax payer for the iPad Air 2s will be more than £1 million .
  