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Secret details of taxpayerfunded expenses claimed by the candidates to become the Speaker of the House of the Commons can be disclosed for the first time.

MPs in the House of Commons today expressed anger and frustration at the focus on their expenses triggered by the Daily Telegraph.

A Labour peer has challenged the House of Commons to sue her after refusing to repay thousands of pounds of expenses she claimed while she was an MP.

Earlier today, the Telegraph reported that a new unit was to be set up to process and audit MPs' expenses. Following the Telegraph's exposure of the full extent of MPs' use of their taxpayer-funded allowances, the House of Commons is set to announce a new system of vetting and verification. A new auditing body, independent of the House of Commons staff who currently check MPs' claims, will be anno...

I believe that this wind that will blow away much of our political class was produced for - if not by - Boris Johnson. He is not currently in the House of Commons, but is Mayor of London. He has obvious ambitions to be at least the next but one Conservative Prime Minister. He is, so far as I can tell, the only person of significance likely to benefit from this expenses scandal. He benefits so far ...

Prime minister and leader of the house respond to barrister's claim that sweeping 'redactions' would be illegal How heavily the details of MPs' expenses are edited before they are published is a matter for the Commons authorities, Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman told the Coventry Telegraph today. Last week the Guardian reported that the Commons would be breaking the law if it g...

Gordon Brown's plans to reform the system of MPs' expenses are to go to a vote in the House of Commons.

I am left wondering if someone is farting too much having read this written question,Mr. Burstow: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the House of Commons Commission's most recent assessment is of the efficiency of the ventilation systems in each building in the House of Commons part of the parliamentary estate.Too many subsidised baked beans?

Just catching up with the new today - been very busy. As I expected, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, has made no attempt to tender his resignation.  Did anyone think he would? Instead he simply asked party leaders to meet him and members of the House of Commons Commission within 48 hours to look at what proposals for reform for second homes expenses could be agreed upon a...