A HOUSE of Commons official has been jailed for nine months after siphoning off nearly £6,000 in fake MPs' expenses claims.

A senior official in the House of Commons fees office has resigned and the police have been called in to carry out a fraud investigation, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.

THE official who ran the House of Commons Fees Office that administered the discredited MPs' expenses system was awarded a pay rise worth around 8 per cent last year, it e

Laura Moffatt the MP with the most marginal seat in Britain has given up a riverside apartment she used to pay for on her parliamentary expenses in favour of a camp bed in her House of Commons office.

• 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...

The Guardian had the story this week about the former chair of the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee (yes, the former chair of the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee): Tory MP David Curry was today ordered to repay £28,000 and issue an apology after the Commons standards and privileges committee ruled that

Senior Commons official Jill Pay said she "deeply regrets" events leading up to police being allowed to search an MP's office in Parliament.

A senior UK Border Agency official authorised the relaxation of border controls without ministerial sanction, Home Secretary Theresa May has told the House of Commons.

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.