MPs found guilty of serious breaches of the rules governing their use of expenses will be forced out of Parliament under a new code of conduct proposed by Gordon Brown.

It is being reported by The Guardian (among others) that North West England MEP Den Dover has been expelled from the Conservative Party after being found to have broken European Parliament expenses rules. Mr Dover - who lost his parliamentary...

Changes must be made to Parliament's rules to allow more details of expenses complaints to be published, says Sir George Young.

It’s true, if you use the internet, your brain power is boosted. Using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests. A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning. (BBC) The internet, unlike the TV, doesn’t rot the brain. Which is nice to know.

The MPs' expenses scandal spread to Europe today, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordered his European legislators to meet stricter accountability rules amid fears that similar abuses could be taking place at the European Parliament.

They still call it the 16th edition, but the latest version of the European Parliament’s Rules of Procedure has now been updated to March 2009. It is available on the web pages of the European Parliament: For researchers and students, at least, it would be an improvement if the Rules of Procedures had references to the original decision and the amendments. Work is under way to amend the Rule...

Everyone now knows that the rules concerning parliamentary expenses for MP were perverse, yet the constant flow of MPs claiming "I worked within the rules" seems totally at odds with everyone elses moral compass. We all know now that MPs were working withing the rules, but we are all concerned that so many MPs lacked the common sense and decency to see that their expenses claim were totally indefe...

David Cameron today expelled the Conservative party's former chief whip in the European parliament who has been found guilty of breaching Strasbourg rules. The parliament decided that Den Dover, who resigned as chief whip in June, had breached its rules and demanded that he pay back just over £500,000. Dover will face a fraud investigation by the EU's anti-fraud body, OLAF, into cl...

Within the treaty framework, the European Parliament adopts and amends its Rules of Procedure, without binding the other institutions or third parties. The Rules of Procedure regulate the main part of decision-making and procedures within the European Parliament. Clearer references to the version in force and amendments, as well as when they enter into force and possibly lapse, could be recommende...

MPS will be barred from claiming expenses for second homes and will be limited to employing no more than one family member, under tough new rules introduced to restore public