Parliamentary commissioner for standards to launch inquiry into minister's £60,000 second home claim Parliament's standards watchdog is going to investigate complaints that employment minister Tony McNulty broke Commons rules over his expense claims, it was announced today. John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, is going to launch a formal investigation into the m...

Welcome shortly to the new Parliament, where not everything has changed: NADINE DORRIES, the Conservative MP, faces the first expenses complaint of the new parliament after a row about a £10,000 claim she paid to a friend’s company. Her former Commons researcher, Peter Hand, is writing to John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, questioning whether the

The Press Association reports that the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, has finally passed on to the Commons Standards Committee the conclusions of his inquiry into Caroline Spelman's use of parliamentary allowances to pay a nanny-cum-secretary for two years...

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, has ruled that Martin Bright, Melissa Kite, Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson all broke Parliamentary rules by failing to fully declare their financial interests in the Register of Journalists’ Interests. They have all been lobby journalists, giving them special access to Parliament and politicians. Given the possibility of lobbyists

Team Dave is letting it be known that a reshuffle, if there is one, will not happen before the fate of Caroline Spelman has been decided by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards John Lyon. I'm not sure whether that means...

The Labour MP John Mann believes he has spotted a wheeze used by Conservative MPs to claim taxpayer cash for their political work. He has written today to John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, to have it checked out....

The former Conservative MP is criticised and ordered to apologise by John Lyon, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, over second-home claims.

The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon has found Labour MP & Justice Minister Bridget Prentice guilty of misusing Parliamentary funds, when she delivered parliamentary newsletters to areas of Lewisham that aren't currently in her constituency but will be after the next election. I wrote about this back in mid October HERE. I wrote... She is currently under investigation by...

MPs will consider today whether Tory frontbencher Caroline Spelman should be punished over the so-called "nannygate" affair. The Commons standards and privileges committee is due to discuss a report into Spelman's conduct prepared by John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards. Spelman's position has been in doubt since allegations emerged last year that she paid for childcar...

I stood as the Conservative candidate for Lewisham East at the 2005 General Election, my opponent was Bridget Prentice MP. She has been caught misusing parliamentary funds and has been told of by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, John Lyon. Naughty, naughty! The case refers a letter sent out called "East meets West" and was clearly an attempt to raise her profile amongst voters that