Scotland Office minister David Mundell was interviewed by police following an allegation that he breached the rules with his election expenses, it emerged today.

Scotland Office minister David Mundell has been interviewed by police following an allegation that he breached the rules with his election expenses.

The most popular lines of defence to come out of the MP’s expenses scandal; “We were acting in good faith” and "Everything was done within the rules”They just don’t get it do they? We know most of you acted within the rules. You made the rules and you police those rules. It is the fact that these are the rules that are upsetting people. It’s morally inexcusable that a multi-millionaire...

Scotland Yard says criminal inquiry would not be in the public interest Scotland Yard will not investigate the leaking of details of MPs' allowances and expenses to the Daily Telegraph, the Metropolitan police said today. While the police began assessing allegations of misuse of parliamentary expenses by individual MPs, the source of the leaked information that has rocked parliament was off t...

It emerges that police have interviewed Scotland Office minister David Mundell over his election expenses.

The parliamentary authorities reacted to damaging revelations of cabinet and junior ministers cynically exploiting Commons expenses rules by calling in the police to investigate how the details were leaked and by whom. The involvement of the police, and the prospect of a full-scale criminal inquiry, came as fresh disclosures emerged of expenses claims made by middle-ranking ministers for items as ...

SCOTLAND'S only Tory MP is facing a possible inquiry into his election expenses.

Police will not investigate the leaking of details of MPs’ allowances and expenses to a national newspaper, Scotland Yard said today.

Sir Paul Stephenson the Scotland Yard Commissioner said that police are prepared to initiate a formal criminal inquiry into MPs' expenses after disclosures by The Telegraph.

Tony McNulty, the employment minister, came under further pressure last night over his claim for £60,000 in expenses for a constituency home where his parents live, when a Tory MP made an official complaint accusing him of breaking Commons rules. Greg Hands, the Tory MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, lodged a complaint with John Lyon, the parliamentary standards commissioner, saying McNulty...