Police have decided to launch an investigation into the alleged misuse of expenses by a small number of MPs and Peers, the BBC has learned.

Labour MP Harry Cohen is being investigated by the police over his expenses claims, the BBC understands.

Home secretary forced to defend parliamentarians' allowances in comments to Police Federation Frontline police officers today accused MPs of enjoying expenses that would not look out of place in a "third world dictatorship". Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, was hauled over the coals by members of the Police Federation of England and Wales. She was forced to defend expenses and allowances for...

The parliamentary authorities reacted to damaging revelations of cabinet and junior ministers cynically exploiting Commons expenses rules by calling in the police to investigate how the details were leaked and by whom. The involvement of the police, and the prospect of a full-scale criminal inquiry, came as fresh disclosures emerged of expenses claims made by middle-ranking ministers for items as ...

It emerges that police have interviewed Scotland Office minister David Mundell over his election expenses.

MORE politicians could come under police investigation over fraudulent expenses.

The BBC have now published the details of the expenses of some of their senior staff, you can see them here. But the salary of individual performers will stay private despite the fact that the license fee pays for them.

The BBC is poised to provoke a fresh row over expenses by refusing to disclose how much its executives spend on entertainment for their stars, says The Times, going on to outline expenses claims by highly paid BBC executives. Even the establishment chairman of the supposed watchdog BBC Trust doesn't get it. He spent £9,800 entertaining George Osborne, Nick Clegg, and others at last year...

The deputy Director General of the BBC claimed £4,878 in expenses for flights to South Africa during the World Cup Final.

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.