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.

Michael Martin rounds angrily on MPs who have criticised the way Commons authorities have handled issue Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, told MPs today that they had to consider "the spirit of what is right" when claiming parliamentary expenses. In a statement on the Daily Telegraph's publication of the details of MPs' expenses, Martin said that Commons would soon set up a new unit t...

These are the MPs who have announced they are quitting the Commons since their expenses claims were revealed in detail for the first time this month Michael Martin The current Commons Speaker became the first in 300 years to be forced out after an extraordinary rebellion in the chamber from MPs critical of his handling of the expenses controversy. The former sheet-metal worker, who spent years blo...

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 ...

Nine out of 10 MPs do not claim back money they are entitled to because of red tape, a report on the new Commons expenses body finds.

The Speaker has said the last six months, which saw the MPs' expenses scandal, were disastrous for the Commons' standing.

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

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...