Ever wondered how Lord Don Dixon manages? If the expenses rows in the House of Commons raise your eyebrows, then go to Letters from a Tory and set your teeth curling as he sets out what sort of expenses the former South Tyneside councillor Baron Dixon of Jarrow could be getting (if he decided to go
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CurlysCornerShop on 1st Feb 2009 (via curly15.wordpress.com)
Secret details of taxpayerfunded expenses claimed by the candidates to become the Speaker of the House of the Commons can be disclosed for the first time.
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Telegraph on 20th Jun 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
MPs in the House of Commons today expressed anger and frustration at the focus on their expenses triggered by the Daily Telegraph.
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PoliticsCoUk on 11th May 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
A Labour peer has challenged the House of Commons to sue her after refusing to repay thousands of pounds of expenses she claimed while she was an MP.
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Telegraph on 15th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Earlier today, the Telegraph reported that a new unit was to be set up to process and audit MPs' expenses. Following the Telegraph's exposure of the full extent of MPs' use of their taxpayer-funded allowances, the House of Commons is set to announce a new system of vetting and verification. A new auditing body, independent of the House of Commons staff who currently check MPs' claims, will be anno...
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TheDevilsKitchen on 11th May 2009 (via devilskitchen.me.uk)
I believe that this wind that will blow away much of our political class was produced for - if not by - Boris Johnson. He is not currently in the House of Commons, but is Mayor of London. He has obvious ambitions to be at least the next but one Conservative Prime Minister. He is, so far as I can tell, the only person of significance likely to benefit from this expenses scandal. He benefits so far ...
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LibertarianAlliance on 18th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
Daniel Kawczynski, the Tory MP, faces criticism over an Eid celebration at the House of Commons.
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Telegraph on 6th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Prime minister and leader of the house respond to barrister's claim that sweeping 'redactions' would be illegal How heavily the details of MPs' expenses are edited before they are published is a matter for the Commons authorities, Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman told the Coventry Telegraph today. Last week the Guardian reported that the Commons would be breaking the law if it g...
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Guardian on 3rd Jun 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Gordon Brown's plans to reform the system of MPs' expenses are to go to a vote in the House of Commons.
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BBCPolitics on 29th Apr 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Three people have been arrested in the House of Commons after an incident behind the Speaker's chair, according to Sky sources.
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SkyNews on 30th Mar 2009 (via news.sky.com)
I am left wondering if someone is farting too much having read this written question,Mr. Burstow: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the House of Commons Commission's most recent assessment is of the efficiency of the ventilation systems in each building in the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate.Too many subsidised baked beans?
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DizzyThinks on 20th May 2009 (via dizzythinks.net)