Ministers and senior government advisors have met with business leaders at networking events charging £1,800 a head, it emerged last night.

The Conservative Party has come under fire for allegedly offering access to ministers at a £1,000-a-plate dinner at the party conference in October.

The Conservative Party is offering meetings with the Prime Minister to supporters who pay a £2,000 donation.

A £1,000-a-plate ticket to a fund-raising dinner at the Conservative Party conference has led to accusations of cash for access.

ADAM Ingram, the former armed forces minister, has denied any wrongdoing after becoming the latest MP embroiled in the cash for access scandal.

With three Labour MPs embroiled in criminal trials over their expense claims, the last thing that Gordon Brown needed was another sleaze scandal in the run-up to the general election.

Senior Labour figures are facing an official investigation over their roles in a "cash for access" lobbying scandal.

IT'S been a good week for the SNP. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made a dignified, sincere and politically effective apology over her support for convicted fraudster Abdul Rauf on Wednesday. Later the same day she and Alex Salmond were cleared of seeking cash for access by auctioning lunch dates to party supporters. And the government garnered plenty of coverage, if little praise, when the...

THE SNP candidate who stood to benefit from auctioned lunches with Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon has defended the fund-raising scheme.

HOLYROOD'S sleaze watchdog was today asked to investigate the First Minister and Deputy First Minister as the "cash for access" row continued.