Miranda Richardson, Sky News Online MPs will be banned from claiming mortgage interest payments and employing family members under Sir Christopher Kelly's recommendations on expenses. Changes expected for MPs in Parliament They... [read full story]
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By Glen Owen, Mail on Sunday Political Correspondent Demands: Sir Thomas Legg's calls for repayment are set to provoke 'a lot of squealing' Shamed MPs who challenge demands for the repayment of expenses could be put on 'trial'...
LONDON—The head of a new independent regulator charged with implementing changes to politician's expenses looks set to reopen the expenses debate after suggesting he may not implement the recommended reforms. The leaders of...
The head of the new watchdog charged with cleaning up Parliament is at the centre of a political firestorm after it emerged that he may scrap key elements of the plan to overhaul the system of MPs' expenses.
9:31am UK, Saturday November 07, 2009 Plans to reform MPs' expenses are in doubt after the head of the body responsible for changing the rules suggested he might not implement all of them. To view this content you need Flash...
There have been accusations of a "behind-the-scenes stitch-up" following reports that key elements of the proposed plan to clean up the system of MPs' expenses could be scrapped. There have been accusations of a 'stitch-up'...
Sir Ian Kennedy's decision to tear up many of the hardest-hitting recommendations in Sir Christopher Kelly's report on the expenses scandal means that new rules will take many more months to hammer out.
Radical reforms proposed for MPs' expenses are set to be scrapped by the Westminster 'enforcer' brought in to implement them. In a move that will outrage the public, Sir Ian Kennedy has effectively caved in to those MPs angry...
Northern Irish MPs are targeted by Sir Christopher Kelly for special attention. His report strongly recommends the end of “double-jobbing” – where MPs sit in both Westminster and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Sir Christopher...
Helen Goodman says it's unfair to ban MPs' expenses claims on cleaning because it's women who usually do the domestic work Women will be put off standing for Parliament unless they can hire a cleaner on their expenses, a female...
MPs should no longer be able to claim for their mortgages or employ family members at the taxpayers' expense, the long-awaited report by the standards watchdog has said. MPs should no longer be able to claim for their mortgages...
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