A spokesman for No?10 said: ?This spend relates to the Downing Street Building Modernisation Programme launched in 2006, under the last government, to address structural repairs and the renewal of failing infrastructure, having gone without refurbishment for some 50 years.
?This programme of work is still ongoing. Downing Street is a Grade I listed building. As such it requires a certain level of maintenance.?
Referring to the �30,000 spent on the Camerons? flat, the spokesman said that the allowance had been spent on ?permanent, core refurbishment?. That work consisted of electrical work and plumbing; alterations to structural improvements and painting and decorating.
?No public money was spent on furniture, fittings or accessories,? she said.
Previous prime ministers have used the annual allowance on the Downing Street flat. In 2009-10, the last year of the Labour government, a total of �29,389 was spent on work on the flat, then occupied by Gordon Brown and his family.
Tom Watson, a Labour MP, criticised Mr Cameron for spending public money on the flat.
He said: ?The Prime Minister heralded the age of transparency and said we?re in a for a period of austerity. Lo and behold the taxpayers subsidised a �30,000 kitchen. He?s not living up to his pledges.?
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