What is it about MEPs and their expenses? Why is it so hard for them to trust the public to see what they spend our money on? The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that both our Tory and Labour MEPs voted to keep their expenses secret, nobbling the legislation that would have forced the information into the open. I think that criticism in relation to expenses is often misdirected. Expenses themselv...

Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust have paid out a secret amount of your money for a misdiagnosis by a doctor whose name is secret, even though a secret report said she had been working within her professional guidelines and no fault had been attached to her. Had she done this before? Has she done it since? That's a secret.

DOZENS of MPs were allowed to admit expenses errors and repay money in secret, it was claimed today.

An interesting article in the Times this morning about money and marriage – should people share the pot of gold or keep separate stashes? A while back, I asked a man at a party what he thought the secret of a happy marriage was. “One bank account,” he said without hesitation. “Keep it simple — what

The BBC was under fire today over fresh allegations of exorbitant expense claims and links to the Soviet Union. Senior corporation producer Guy Burgess abused his expenses account to such an extent that even the professional money squanderers at the bloated, leftist BBC complained he was spending too much licence fee payers' money 'making contacts', according to shocking new documents. Top secret ...

Telegraph View: Every other individual who receives public money for personal expenses has to provide an account of it that taxpayers can inspect. MPs should be no different.

The restitution system which allows MPs to secretly conclude formal expenses by apologising for breaking the rules and repaying the money was first introduced in 2003.

I’ve commented on the fate of the 21 Conservative MPs who voted against reform of Parliamentary expenses (in brief: nearly all of them have since had to pay back money or had an expenses scandal come to light). That was one of two key votes where Parliament had had the chance to clean up its act

Alex Salmond has refused to apologise to taxpayers for handing an "insolvent" company a secret £180,000 loan without checking the money could be paid back.

Over the past three years, 40 MPs have agreed secret deals after breaching expenses rules. Below, for the first time, are the details of all the cases resolved through the "rectification" process.