Thursday 09 June 2011

MPs' Expenses

MPs' Expenses: The Telegraph's investigation, The Expenses Files, into how politicians - from the Cabinet to backbenchers of all parties - exploited the system of parliamentary allowances to subsidise their lifestyles and multiple homes.

MPs' expenses latest

New Lords expenses system costing taxpayers millions

The new House of Lords expenses system introduced following a series of scandals is substantially more of a burden on the taxpayer than the discredited one it replaced.

Figures released by Parliament show that the system introduced following a series of scandals is substantially more of a burden on the taxpayer than the one it replaced.

08 Jun 2011

Civil servants fight to keep Whitehall expenses secret

Whitehall mandarins have made a last-ditch effort to halt the publication of the details of spending by civil servants on taxpayer-funded credit cards.

07 Jun 2011

Liberal Democrats could lose up to a quarter of their seats

Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg

Almost a quarter of Liberal Democrat-held seats could disappear at the next election, according to independent analysis of a major boundary review.

06 Jun 2011

MPs spend nearly �1m on credit cards

MPs' expenses: nearly �1million spent on taxpayer-funded credit cards in first two months

Spending watchdog reveals that, in total, MPs racked up £3.2m expenses in first two months of year.

02 Jun 2011

MPs rack up expenses bill of �3.2m in first two months of the year

84 MPs were refused a total of £4,633 in January and February of 2011, while £880,000 was put on official payment cards, according to report by expenses watchdog IPSA.

02 Jun 2011

Lord Taylor jailed for 12 months over expenses

Peer's 'protracted course of dishonesty' over claims for home in Oxford defrauded the expenses system by more than £11,000.

31 May 2011

MP served quarter of sentence

David Chaytor, the first former MP jailed over the parliamentary expenses scandal, has been released from prison after serving just a quarter of his 18-month sentence, sources said.

26 May 2011

MPs expenses: I fiddled �31,000 after bullying by 'powerful enemy’, says Elliot Morley

Elliot Morley, the former Labour minister who fiddled £31,000 on his expenses, was jailed for 16 months as he tried to blame his behaviour partly on depression after “bitter battles” with Gordon Brown’s Treasury.

21 May 2011

Elliot Morley jailed for cheating his expenses

Elliot Morley becomes first former minister to be jailed as he is sentenced to 16 months in prison.

20 May 2011

Peer 'claimed for London stay while on flight to India'

A Conservative peer, Lord Hanningfield, claimed parliamentary expenses for an overnight stay in London, despite being on a flight to India at the time, a court heard.

17 May 2011

Former MP Eric Illsley released from jail

Eric Illsley, an MP jailed for expenses fraud and released after just four months of a year-long sentence, has immediately proclaimed that he was a “scapegoat”.

14 May 2011

No first names, John

Telegraph View: Public confidence in politicians will be restored by MPs working hard and behaving honestly.

13 May 2011

Ipsa hits back over MPs’ demand for expenses overhaul

The independent watchdog in charge of the tough new system of parliamentary allowances introduced following the expenses scandal has hit back at MPs who this week threatened to abolish them.

13 May 2011

David Laws 'facing criminal investigation'

LIb Dem could face police investigation into expenses fraud after Labour MP writes to Met aking them to launch an inquiry.

13 May 2011

MPs vote for reform of new expenses system

"Root and branch” review of parliamentary expenses system could lead to independent watchdog being scrapped this year

13 May 2011

Cameron and Clegg call for Laws to stay 'in public life'

David Cameron and Nick Clegg called for the disgraced former Cabinet Minister David Laws to remain in public life after he was found guilty of using taxpayers' money to pay his boyfriend more than £100,000.

13 May 2011

MPs' expenses: Now find a workable solution

Telegraph View: This newspaper cannot condone a return to the discredited allowances system, run by MPs for MPs.

12 May 2011

Cameron and Clegg defend Laws

Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg defend David Laws over breaking expenses rules after the Liberal Democrat MP was suspended from Parliament.

12 May 2011

David Laws: how his expenses claims broke the rules

David Laws faces suspension from the House of Commons for seven days for a "serious breach of the rules" on MPs' expenses. Here is a break down of the claims in question.

12 May 2011

David Laws: apologies in full

David Laws has made two statements apologising "without reservation" for breaking MPs' expenses rules by claiming tens of thousands of pounds for rent paid to his partner, James Lundie. Here they are in full.

12 May 2011

Laws apologises for breaking expenses rules

As he is suspended for seven days, the Lib Dem MP admits his expenses claims undermined reputation of MPs

12 May 2011

Claim for renting the spare room in partner's flat

For more than five years, David Laws rented a room in his partner’s house, claiming up to £950 a month for rent and thousands of pounds for maintenance and repairs to the property.

12 May 2011

Analysis: How high flyer David Laws fell from grace

David Laws resigned after The Daily Telegraph disclosed he had used taxpayers' money to pay rent to his secret partner.

12 May 2011

Profile: David Laws

When David Laws was given the all clear in the expenses audit of MPs earlier this year, he wasted no time in making political capital from the news.

12 May 2011

David Laws suspended for 'serious breach of expenses rules'

Committee recommends Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury serves seven day suspension from House of Commons and issues apology after expenses investigation.

12 May 2011