The public outrage about MPs’ abuse of expenses has resulted in the Prime Minister instituting radical reforms, with the establishment of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, headed by Sir Ian Kennedy... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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