This seems to be the week for questions over MPs and their expenses, so this time it’s back to Richard Benyon, MP for Newbury and the man with the disappearing blog. A quick recap: his website says it is paid for out of MP expenses, but the blog on it had content that isn’t allowed under

Jude Robinson, Labour PPC for Camborne and Redruth, has put local MP Julia Goldsworthy on the spot saying "unanswered questions" remain about her parliamentary expenses. In May 2009 Julia Goldsworthy said: "I still believe there is a need for total transparency in MPs' expenses". However, despite a clear statement on her parliamentary website that "All claims for the London property relate to...

In the EU27, 93% of enterprises1 of ten or more persons employed had access to the internet in January 2008, the same as in January 2007, and 81% of enterprises had a broadband internet connection, up from 77% in January 2007. On average in the EU27, 64% of enterprises had a website in January 2008, compared with 63% in January 2007.

In 2007 Liberal England we gave you a chance to win a DVD of the film Taking Liberties. Now those nice people at Gibson Square have sent me three copies of Eamonn Butler's book The Rotten State of Britain as prizes in a new quiz. The questions will be posted here in a couple of days. Butler is head of the Adam Smith Institute and the organisation's website describes his book as follows:W...

Today's publication of the Legg report and the release of details of MPs expenses claims for 2008/9 and 2009/10 has pushed the whole expenses issue back to the top of the news agenda. It also raises a few questions about Nadine Dorries's expenses, her blog and her staffing arrangements, that we'd really like to see answered.

This one was new to me: The Institute of Race Relations. Half their income is from The Big Lottery and the Heritage Lottery Fund (heck knows why they split it up like that) and the other half appears to be legit (see note 7, page 13 of their 2008 accounts). I'm also rather disappointed to report that Global Cool have finally submitted their September 2007 accounts (after a year and a half) an...

Asked if the Prime Minister was prepared to consider disciplinary action against any members of his Government over expenses, the PMS said that the Government had been answering questions in relation to this consistently for the last three or four days. He said we had made clear that individual ministers had given their explanations for the action that they have taken and the issues that relate to...

I'm confused and have been for some time now about why the Department of Work and Pensions has not published a single freedom of information request response on its website since April 2007. DEFRA is just as bad, not having published anything since June 2007. Perhaps I am missing something though, perhaps they have published something and I just can't find it. All the other departments seem very g...

This has to be some sort of record - a mere three days after the general election and Nadine Dorries may already be MP facing the possibility of another fresh investigation into one of her expenses claims. This time around, its the Sunday Times that's asking the questions, so there's no blowing this one off as a revenge attack by the Barclay Brothers.

On February 8th Jacquie Smith was forced to defend herself after claiming her sister’s property as her main residence, therefore claiming the home she shares with her husband as a second home on her expenses. On March 29th Jacquie Smith’s husband was forced to apologise for charging porn to the taxpayer. Today, 114 days after the home expenses questions and 65 days after the porn incid...