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MPs' expenses: Former Labour MP Frank Cook claimed for DIY items bought in USA
Frank Cook, a former Labour MP, claimed twice on his expenses for DIY
equipment bought in America where his second wife, an exiled princess, lives.
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MPs' expenses: Labour MP Frank Cook claimed for DIY items bought in USA
Frank Cook, a Labour MP, claimed twice on his expenses for DIY equipment
bought in America where his second wife, an exiled princess from Laos,
lives.
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160 quangocrats are paid more than David Cameron, including heads of MI5 and MI6
The pay of more than 150 senior staff working in quangos who earn more than
the Prime Minister is disclosed today.
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156 quangocrats are paid more than David Cameron, including heads of MI5 and MI6
The pay of more than 150 senior staff working in quangos who earn more than
the Prime Minister is disclosed today.
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Vengeful MPs threaten to bring down new expenses watchdog
Disgruntled MPs are threatening to bring down the new independent allowances
watchdog in protest.
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MPs' expenses: Expenses scandal led to 'terrorisation of Parliament'
The MPs' expenses scandal saw the "terrorisation of Parliament",
lawyers defending politicians charged with stealing tens of thousands of
pounds told a court yesterday.
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House of Commons should be subject to regular financial checks, charity says
The House of Commons should be subject to a regular financial health-check by
Whitehall's spending watchdog in the wake of last year's expenses scandal,
the Institute for Government charity has said.
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House of Commons should be subject to regular financial checks, thinktank says
The House of Commons should be subject to a regular financial health-check by
Whitehall's spending watchdog in the wake of last year's expenses scandal,
the Institute for Government thinktank has said.
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MPs' expenses: New Lords allowance regime 'open to abuse'
A new House of Lords expenses regime allowing peers to claim £300 a day for
"clocking in" at Parliament will be open to abuse, critics have warned.
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MPs' expenses: Lords face cut in allowances under new regime
Peers face a 10pc cut in allowances under new expenses regime.
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MPs' expenses: Nadine Dorries pays £50,000 of allowances to close friend
A Conservative MP whose parliamentary expenses are under investigation by the
Commons sleaze watchdog paid more than £50,000 of public money to a close
friend.
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MPs' Expenses: second home claims fall £2m
Figures from last six months of 2009 show drop in claims from MPs cowed by
public outrage at the abuse of their expenses.
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MPs claimed more than £10 million in expenses in six months
Figures for final six months of 2009 indicate that MPs' spending dropped
significantly after the expenses scandal broke.
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David Cameron says Sinn Fein MPs who claim expenses are being let "off the hook"
Sinn Fein MPs who choose not to attend Parliament but still claim hundreds of
thousands of pounds in expenses are being let "off the hook", David Cameron
has said.
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MPs' expenses: Eric Illsley appears in court charged with £25,000 fraud
Eric Illsley, a Labour MP, today denied stealing more than £25,000 in
parliamentary expenses, as he became the fifth politician to appear in court
charged with fraud.
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MPs' expenses draw a crowd
Telegraph View: The way MPs are behaving only makes the case that they
cannot be trusted to organise the system themselves.
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MPs' expenses: MPs complain of being 'thrown to the dogs'
MPs have complained that they are being 'thrown to the dogs' after being
forced to abide by a strict new expenses regime.
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MPs' Expenses: chaos as MPs abuse authority staff
The parliamentary expenses regime was in turmoil last night after the head of
the watchdog said MPs had been abusing his staff.
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MPs' expenses: official quits 'for own sanity' after backlash on reforms
A senior official tasked with cleaning up the Westminster's expenses system,
has said he left the post "for the sake of my health and sanity"
amid a backlash from some MPs.
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MPs' expenses: Three MPs and peer to face trial as privilege claim dismissed
Judge rejects a claim of parliamentary privilege by three former Labour MPs
and a Conservative peer.
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