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MPs' expenses: fees office official facing jail for bogus claims scam

Tue, 31/08/2010 - 16:32
Former official in the House of Commons fees office faces jail for siphoning almost £6,000 in bogus MPs' expenses claims to clear his debts.
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MPs who abused expenses staff should be named, former watchdog claims

Thu, 26/08/2010 - 20:34
MPs who abused Commons staff handling their expenses claims should be named, a former watchdog has said.
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MPs' expenses: Abuse of power

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 18:44
Telegraph View: There is a belief in Westminster that the world somehow owes its inhabitants a good living
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MPs' four-letter tirade against expenses regime

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 17:30
A report from IPSA, the new MPs' expenses watchdog, describes the abusive reaction of politicians to the stricter regime.
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MPs agreed to 'abortion' expenses system after abuses uncovered

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 16:21
A report from IPSA, the new MPs' expenses watchdog, describes the abusive and sometimes violent reaction of politicians to the stricter regime.
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MPs describe expenses system as 'abortion' and reduce staff to tears

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 13:45
A report from IPSA, the new MPs' expenses watchdog, describes the abusive reaction of politicians to the stricter regime.
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MPs' expenses: disgraced MPs obtain secret refunds

Sun, 15/08/2010 - 16:19
A grandee who charged for servants' quarters and a minister who claimed for dog food are among 23 MPs who clawed back cash.
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MPs' expenses: disgraced MPs obtain secret refunds

Sun, 15/08/2010 - 16:19
A grandee who charged for servants' quarters and a minister who claimed for dog food are among 23 MPs who clawed back cash.
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Lord Taylor of Warwick in Court over expenses

Fri, 13/08/2010 - 23:52
Lord Taylor of Warwick has appeared in court charged with dishonestly claiming £24,300 in parliamentary expenses.
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Former Tory peer Lord Taylor in court over expenses claims

Fri, 13/08/2010 - 15:12
A former Tory peer has appeared in court accused of false accounting after he was questioned over the parliamentary expenses scandal.
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Ed Balls receives £100,000 donation from Ken Follett

Thu, 12/08/2010 - 14:48
Ed Balls' bid to become Labour leader has been boosted by a six figure donation from Ken Follett, the millionaire author whose wife was forced to repay thousands in expenses.
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Sir Paul Beresford appointed to sleaze watchdog

Tue, 10/08/2010 - 15:45
A former minister who based his dentist's surgery in his parliamentary 'second home' has been appointed to the House of Commons' anti-sleaze committee.
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MPs break promise to let public police expenses

Mon, 09/08/2010 - 17:29
MPs have broken a promise to allow members of the public on to the body which has ultimate authority over their expenses.
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David Cameron saved free milk because 'it dates back to war'

Mon, 09/08/2010 - 17:08
David Cameron stepped in to save the provision of free milk to the under-fives because the scheme dated back to the Second World War, Downing Street has said.
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MPs' expenses: Staff at quango created 'red card' system for rude callers

Sun, 08/08/2010 - 15:23
Staff at the new MPs' expenses quango created a football-style system of red and yellow cards for politicians who were rude to them.
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MPs' expenses: senior backbenchers hit back at expenses watchdog

Wed, 04/08/2010 - 16:11
MPs have described the new system of Commons' allowances as an expensive failure as the war of words over the expenses watchdog continues.
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MPs' expenses: IPSA is three months old

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:19
Andrew McDonald, the Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, writes about the first three months of the new expenses watchdog.
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MPs' expenses: 'refuseniks' failing to adopt the new regime

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:05
MPs are failing to accept the need for "cultural change" following the expenses scandal and are still acting as "refuseniks", the head of the new Parliamentary watchdog has warned.
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MPs' expenses: 'refuseniks' are refusing to adopt the new expenses regime

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:05
MPs are failing to accept the need for 'cultural change' following the expenses scandal and are still acting as 'refuseniks,' the head of the new Parliamentary watchdog has warned.
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Former MPs charged with abusing expenses will face criminal trials

Fri, 30/07/2010 - 11:49
Court of Appeal judges said "ordinary criminal activities" by MPs and Lords were not protected by the ancient defence of parliamentary privilege.
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