A married councillor who moved 160 miles to set up home with his mistress is claiming £500 a month in expenses to travel back for meetings, it emerged on Wednesday.

A Google Maps mashup shows that distance usually determines size of expense - but there are some odd anomalies MPs and travel: now it's laid bare. Tony Hirst - to whom we referred yesterday - has been busy again with our data, this time creating a Google Map showing MPs, their constituencies, and their travel claims. A word of explanation on how it's done: take the travel expenses, which...

Peers will have to submit receipts for travel and overnight accommodation under proposed new expenses rules from the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB).

It was only a matter of time before councillors’ expenses came under the spotlight and, if the results of investigations by Labour in Southend-on-Sea are anything to go by, not before time: If you break the travel expenses down by group you can see a definite trend. (The figures quoted are for the eight years

Gordon Brown claimed more than £2,500 on travel expenses after losing the general election, despite barely being seen in Parliament.

Over the last few years, much has been written about the obscene travel allowances Members of the European Parliament are able to claim in order to make their way to Brussels and Strasbourg. Following a campaign by the Conservatives and...

Expenses row intensifies prompting ministers to explain differences in claims amounting to £20,000 in some areas Link to Tony Hirst's map A Guardian project using Google Maps has revealed differences of up to £20,000 in neighbouring MPs' travel expenses. In north-east England, Labour's David Clelland (Tyne Bridge) claimed £25,019 in travel expenses for 2007-08, whi...

SCOTTISH quango bosses have splashed out tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash on travel and expenses involving trips to destinations such as the United States, C

There’s a nifty little Google Map at which is a great example of how you can use maps to make statistics clearer. In this case, the big issue is that MPs do have genuinely different legitimate travel needs depending on where they live. It’s only reasonable for an MP from Scotland to have much

The publication the full expenses claimed by all MPs in 2007-08 will include a detailed breakdown of family travel expenses, a House of Commons spokeswoman confirmed. MPs’ spouses and children under 18 are entitled to 30 single trips – or 15 return journeys – every year between