The former Conservative MP is criticised and ordered to apologise by John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, over second-home claims.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer man: In a statement, the Standards and Privileges Committee said: “At its meeting on 12 October, the Committee agreed that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards should report to the Metropolitan Police Service the conduct of the Rt hon Member for Rotherham,

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards receives a complaint into the conduct of a Liberal Democrat MP.

Over at The Guardian, Dr Tim Leunig, a Lib Dem member and economist, argues for speedy due process to determine any future MPs’ expenses controversies to avoid unnecessary ministerial resignations driven by the demands of rolling news: The public need the independent parliamentary commissioner for standards, John Lyon, to judge MPs’ conduct. But the public also

Welcome shortly to the new Parliament, where not everything has changed: NADINE DORRIES, the Conservative MP, faces the first expenses complaint of the new parliament after a row about a £10,000 claim she paid to a friend’s company. Her former Commons researcher, Peter Hand, is writing to John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, questioning whether the

Stephen Byers is in a bind. Desperate to salvage some credibility following the Channel 4 Dispatches sting in which he claimed to be a "cab for hire" by lobbyists who were prepared to pay between £3,000 and £5,000 for his Westminster contacts, he referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards at the start of this week. Mr. Byers is sure that his comments, broa...

Daniel Kawczynski is Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham. Here he shares the letter he has written this week to John Lyon, the the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, seeking an investigation into a Labour MP allegedly using parliamentary facilities for...

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, has ruled that Martin Bright, Melissa Kite, Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson all broke Parliamentary rules by failing to fully declare their financial interests in the Register of Journalists’ Interests. They have all been lobby journalists, giving them special access to Parliament and politicians. Given the possibility of lobbyists

The complaints procedure for MPs is handled by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards John Lyon, through a system that has been attacked for being slow and complicated.

The League Against Cruel Sports has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards alleging that the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ judgement in pledging to repeal the Hunting Act has been compromised following large cash donations from hunt supporters. Nick Herbert MP received £24,500 in seven separate donations following an