Inspired by this piece of 'blog research, and comments by Mark Wadsworth thereto, I decided to see whether the size of an MP's majority was related to the size of their expenses claim. I used the Pippa Norris database and an excel file of expenses I found somewhere. The results are relatively disappointing. Here is a scatter of MP's total expenses in pounds and their majority as a %...
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MattT on 25th May 2009 (via matthewturner.co.uk)
Scotland Yard has passes a new file of evidence against a Parliamentarian suspected of abusing expenses to prosecutors.
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BBCPolitics on 19th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
SCOTLAND Yard yesterday passed a new file of evidence to prosecutors against another politician suspected of abusing expenses.
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Scotsman on 31st Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Police investigating MP and peers' expenses have handed an additional file of evidence to prosecutors, Scotland Yard said.
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BBCPolitics on 22nd Dec 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
The Metropolitan Police Service hand over ninth file of evidence relating to parliamentary expenses to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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BBCPolitics on 9th Dec 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
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IainDale on 19th Jul 2008 (via iaindale.blogspot.com)
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file:///C:/user/Sean/Writings/Sean%20Gabb%20Website/flcomm/flc155.htm Free Life Commentary, A Personal View from The Director of the Libertarian Alliance Issue Number 155 26th October 2006 14th June 2006 | On Opposing the DNA Database by Sean Gabb Last Monday evening—the 23rd October—I was called into the London studio of Sky News to put a case against constructing a database of D...
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LibertarianAlliance on 4th Dec 2008 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
And then we have a chink of light with the House of Lords defeating the Government over the issue of keeping peoples' DNA and fingerprints on the police national database. Peers backed a Conservative amendment calling for national guidelines for deleting material by 161 votes to 150. The UK has the largest police DNA database in the world - with more than four million people on file. Under cu...
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PeterBlack on 5th Nov 2008 (via peterblack.blogspot.com)
A total of 10 MPs have lost stood down from their political positions since The Daily Telegraph began its investigation into expenses claims.
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Telegraph on 25th May 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The review by Sir Thomas Legg is supposed to draw a line under the expenses scandal, but it is clear the saga has not yet run its course
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FT on 4th Feb 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Stormont's 108 assembly members claim a total of almost £8m in expenses in the past financial year.
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BBCPolitics on 28th Sep 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
