COMMONS deputy speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst last night said he would repay £12,000 in expenses "out of respect to my constituents".

Heffer attacks Commons deputy speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst for claiming £12,000 from the taxpayer to fund work on his garden Simon Heffer, the Daily Telegraph columnist, said today he would to stand against his local Conservative MP unless he paid back £12,000 in expenses. Heffer attacked the Commons deputy speaker, Sir Alan Haselhurst, for claiming £12,000 from the taxpayer to fu...

GORDON Brown has been ordered to pay back taxpayers more than £12,000 as the expenses scandal returned to plague the Commons on the first day after the long summer recess.

• Commons authorities discuss asking Met to find leaker • Disk containing records 'was offered to papers for £300,000' House of Commons officials have today discussed calling in the police to hunt down the mole who leaked details of MPs expenses, the Guardian has learned. A statement from the Commons authorities is expected this afternoon. A decision to call in the police...

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BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons ran up expenses totalling more than £12,000 in six months, new figures have revealed.

A Labour MP who faced criticism during the expenses scandal for making a profit of almost £200,000 on a taxpayer-funded flat, bought another property with the taxpayer's help.

A backbench Labour MP claimed for bath mats gardening equipment and more than £7000 of property repairs on his office expenses.

THE long-awaited review of House of Commons expenses has ordered MPs to repay £1.12 million, it has been revealed.

An MP who employs his wife to work in his constituency office billed the taxpayer for bailiff fees after the property's rent fell into arrears.