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MPs disclose contents of expenses letters

14.10.09
These are the MPs who have so far disclosed all or part of the content of letters received from Sir Thomas Legg, as a result of his inquiry into additional cost allowances claimed between 2004-5 and 2008-9... more

Gordon Brown should beware the great MPs' backlash

14.10.09
What is it with them? The former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith this week issued an apology for her mistaken expenses so grudging she really does seem to believe she is the major victim of this demeaning affair... more

Minister to quit after £25,000 expenses row

02.10.09
Minister who claimed £25,000 of taxpayers' money for private 'security' protection has announced she will quit as an MP... more

MP expenses chiefs' pay rises emerge

04.08.09
Official who ran the House of Commons fees office which administered the discredited MPs' expenses system was awarded a pay rise worth around 8% last year... more

Death threats and a stalker — why my security’s worth £25k

29.06.09
In an exclusive interview, Culture Minister Barbara Follett reveals how she has coped with years of hate mail and why she still isn’t sorry about her expenses... more

The expenses MPs wanted us to see

18.06.09
MPs' expenses for the past four years are officially available to the public from today ... more

Millionaire Tory MP Brian Binley faces action over £57k expense claim

17.06.09
Millionaire Tory MP faces disciplinary action by David Cameron after claiming £57,000 from the taxpayer to rent a flat from his own company ... more

Cameron is 'using row over expenses for Stalinist purge'

17.06.09
David Cameron was hit by a "bedblockers' rebellion" over claims he is purging the party of old and awkward MPs on the back of the expenses scandal... more

In her own words... How Kirkbridge stood down and Cameron's reply

28.05.09
The text of Bromsgrove MP Julie Kirkbride's letter to Tory leader David Cameron announcing her intention to quit at the next election, and Mr Cameron's reply... more

Speaker to reveal expenses reform plans

18.05.09
Commons Speaker Michael Martin will set out expenses reform plans to MPs in a bid to quell rapidly-escalating demands for him to quit over his handling of the scandal... more

Cameron aide quits over home that did not exist

14.05.09
One of David Cameron’s closest aides claimed a second home allowance “for years” when he only had one home... more

Balls and Cooper to be quizzed over claims for London second home

25.06.08
The Cabinet's "golden couple" are under investigation over alleged milking of Commons expenses, it has emerged... more

Tory MPs broke rules on second home payments

18.06.08
David Cameron was rocked by a fresh sleaze scandal when two senior Conservative MPs were found to have breached rules on taxpayer-funded second homes... more

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