Following on from my earlier post, the Press Gazette says:Journalists from rival newspapers believe the Daily Telegraph paid £150,000 for data revealing the full details of the expenses claims of cabinet ministers.This was the figure doing the rounds at the journalists' bar in the House of Commons last night.There were also suggestions that because the Telegraph apparently had access to the "

A senior official in the House of Commons fees office has resigned and the police have been called in to carry out a fraud investigation, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

MPs in the House of Commons today expressed anger and frustration at the focus on their expenses triggered by the Daily Telegraph.

The expenses scandal takes a new twist tonight. The Telegraph reveals that the House of Commons Fees Office has been complicit in allowing MPs to overclaim thousands of pounds in illicit mortgage claims. House of Commons officials colluded with MPs to let them make inflated claims on their mortgages, leaked internal documents seen by The Daily Telegraph have disclosed. Parliamentary authorities, o...

Telegraph Will this re-ignite the anger? After a period when the Telegraph’s daily revelations about MPs expenses were starting to get a bit routine the paper has turned once again to the detailed affairs of the cabinet - folk you would think would have the political skills to know better. Thus the main lead in the Telegraph

MPs from all parties reacted with dismay after the Commons authorities called in the police to investigate the leaking of parliamentary expenses to the Daily Telegraph.

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...

Michael Martin rounds angrily on MPs who have criticised the way Commons authorities have handled issue Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, told MPs today that they had to consider "the spirit of what is right" when claiming parliamentary expenses. In a statement on the Daily Telegraph's publication of the details of MPs' expenses, Martin said that Commons would soon set up a new unit t...

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...

One quarter of the House of Commons will stand down at next election as more than 170 MPs plan to retire in the wake of the Parliamentary expenses scandal, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.