Blog posts tagged "MPs expenses"

May 12, 2011 12:59 pm 7 Comments

He's the first Westminster victim of Thursday's results. Trying to come back on the pitch just as a "friendly" turned into a bit of a grudge match.

December 15, 2010 6:04 pm 1 Comment

Our Political Editor reports on tonight's meeting between the Prime Minister and his backbench MPs over the way the new expenses system - overseen by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - works.

August 25, 2010 1:15 pm 1 Comment

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has published 10 "incident reports" of MPs allegedly abusing its staff.

April 20, 2010 12:50 pm 17 Comments

Expenses aren’t dominating today’s election but they have popped up twice. At Nick Clegg’s press conference the BBC’s Andrew Neil was suggesting Nick Clegg had overdone it on the furnishings at his second home. Nick Clegg invited Andrew Neil round to have a look around at his Sheffield pad and prove it wasn’t a palace.

March 17, 2010 6:46 pm 16 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on how MPs are expressing regrets, but few apologies as they prepare to retire from the Commons in the wake of the expenses scandal.

February 11, 2010 12:15 pm 2 Comments

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority which oversees MPs' expenses will cost more than £6mn. Does anyone miss Gordon Brown's idea of a cheaper, fixed allowance?

February 8, 2010 6:20 pm 8 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon on Labour's decision to stop using the lawyers three MPs are using to defend themselves, and David Cameron using the scandal to attack Gordon Brown.

February 4, 2010 1:57 pm 13 Comments

Sir Christopher Kelly, Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, talked to the Public Administration Committee this morning. He refused several invitations to take a pot shot at Sir Thomas Legg. He said to the committee: “I think all of you are guilty of having gone along with a system which you must [...]

12:22 pm 5 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on the clash of views on MPs expenses between Sir Thomas Legg and Sir Paul Kennedy, and why not all the money will be paid back to the Commons.

December 17, 2009 4:58 pm 4 Comments

Eighty MPs have registered that they wish to appeal against Legg’s bill for challenged expenses. I hear that about half of them may relate to mortgage claims. Legg has asked for documentation to prove mortgages claimed for and said that while photocopies might have been acceptable to the Fees Office they were not acceptable to [...]