MPs have backed a series of reforms aimed at strengthening Parliament, recommended after the expenses scandal.
submitted by
BBCPolitics on 4th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Move part of a reform of Parliament brought on by the expenses scandal John Bercow the Commons Speaker has said.
submitted by
Telegraph on 24th Sep 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Nick Clegg has today penned an article for The Daily Telegraph urging the Labour and Tory parties to take action to reform Parliament in the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal. Here’s an excerpt: The new political season is beginning. Spring and early summer were defined by the expenses scandal, but what will the autumn be
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 27th Aug 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
MPs will vote tomorrow on an amendment to the Government’s resolutions on the reform of Parliament, put forward by Evan Harris MP on behalf of the Wright Committee. (Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons.) The Wright Committee was set up as a response to the expenses scandal in 2009 to make recommendations on
submitted by
LiberalDemocratVoice on 3rd Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Emergency plans to reform Parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal have been heavily criticised by peers.
submitted by
BBCPolitics on 6th Jul 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
THE Westminster expenses scandal should be used as a springboard for major constitutional reform in the UK, campaigners have said.
submitted by
Scotsman on 22nd May 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Nick Clegg has outlined a 100-day plan to reform parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal.
submitted by
PoliticsCoUk on 28th May 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
Reforms to clean up Parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal are justified, Gordon Brown tells MPs.
submitted by
BBCPolitics on 16th Jul 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
The Speaker of the House of Commons has admitted it will take five years for Parliament to recover from the MPs' expenses scandal.
submitted by
Telegraph on 20th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Thus the prime minister has finally responded to the slow-burning scandal of MPs' expenses - a scandal those close to him fear could taint his government just as one word - "sleaze" - tainted John Major's. At first, Gordon Brown insisted that the question of how to reform MPs' expenses was a matter for Parliament not for him or the government. Indeed, when proposals very similar to ...
submitted by
NickRobinson on 21st Apr 2009 (via bbc.co.uk)
William Hague has said that reform in Parliament will have to go beyond simply improving the expenses system.
submitted by
ePolitix on 15th May 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)