Police have begun an investigation into the expenses claims of Labour MP Harry Cohen who was paid more than £70,000 in a second home allowance for a house he rarely visited

THE Commons has agreed to strip Labour MP Harry Cohen of his £65,000 golden goodbye payment over a "particularly serious breach" of parliamentary expenses rules.

According to the Mail on Sunday: Cohen has claimed every single penny of the maximum £104,701 in Commons expenses in the past five years for his £375,000 property in his Leyton and Wanstead constituency in East London, on the basis that it is his 'second home'. Astonishingly, he says he has claimed the full second-home allowance since 1990. It means he has pocketed a staggeri...

Each criminal case helped by the use of surveillance cameras effectively costs £20,000 to detect, according to Metropolitan Police figures.

Labour MP Harry Cohen has been reported to the Parliamentary sleaze watchdog over his living arrangements.

The police investigation into alleged expenses abuses by MPs and Lords has so far cost the taxpayer more than £500,000, the Metropolitan Police has disclosed.

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

Handful of cases may be investigated, such as claims for mortgages that were already paid off Senior police and prosecutors have announced they will not launch criminal investigations into more than 100 MPs over their apparent abuse of parliamentary expenses. The Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan police said today that after examining "numerous cases" they found there was no prospect ...

Scotland Yard says criminal inquiry would not be in the public interest Scotland Yard will not investigate the leaking of details of MPs' allowances and expenses to the Daily Telegraph, the Metropolitan police said today. While the police began assessing allegations of misuse of parliamentary expenses by individual MPs, the source of the leaked information that has rocked parliament was off t...

One of the highest-claiming MPs in recent years claimed almost £2,000 to have a new bath installed at his second home in place of a Jacuzzi.