Complex funding arrangement to pay for PM’s flat refurb July 17, 2021 LONDON: The complex funding arrangement to cover the lavish refurbishments of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat has been detailed in an official report. More than £28,000 was spent on painting and sanding floorboards to come close to the annual allowance afforded to the Prime Minister for renovations. But additional invoices came in and were paid for by the Cabinet Office before being recharged to the Conservative Party in July last year, according to the report. In March, the supplier — reportedly interior designer Lulu Lytle — refunded the Government, which then refunded the Tories, before Johnson met “all final costs”, the report detailed. The refurbishments to the flat in No 11 sparked sustained scrutiny of the Prime Minister’s finances and he was investigated by his own ministerial standards adviser, Lord Geidt.