Expenses

Channel 4’s Dispatches receives a list of landlords renting to around 300 MPs who are claiming rent payments on expenses, as Equalities Minister Helen Grant is forced to defend her arrangement.

Denis MacShane resigned after 18 years as an MP after a cross-party committee of MPs recommended he face a 12-month suspension over false expenses claims.

Ex-Serious Fraud Office chief Phillippa Williamson left with a special payment of £15,000 and £407,000 in pension entitlements in a voluntary redundancy deal that breaches government rules.

On the heels of George Osborne’s request for a first class upgrade, new figures show that more than a quarter of MPs use first class rail travel – sometimes at five times the cost of standard tickets.

A row is brewing over the publication of details of MPs’ home rental arrangements as a newspaper report claims security concerns may block any revelations.

Former miners’ union leader Arthur Scargill didn’t have a lot to say to Channel 4 News as he emerged from court in a row over who’s paying for his flat. Katie Razzall has the story.

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen calls for a probe into the source of £500,000 in bank deposits linked to MP Keith Vaz in a letter to the parliamentary standards commissioner obtained by Channel 4 News.

JPMorgan’s admission that it lost $2bn in six weeks sends bank stocks tumbling. If America’s most profitable investment bank can admit sloppy trading, what on earth are the lesser banks up to?

Former Luton South MP Margaret Moran looked broken as she sat in the dock for the short hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, writes Channel 4 News reporter Katie Razzall.

Former Conservative peer Lord Taylor of Warwick is jailed for 12 months after being convicted of fiddling his parliamentary expenses and claiming more than £11,000 from the taxpayer.

The publication of Chris Huhne’s ex-wife’s driving licence heaps more pressure on the Energy Secretary. Even Lib Dems are calling for him to stand down, as Victoria Macdonald discovers.

Ex-Labour MP Elliot Morley has been jailed for 16 months for fiddling his expenses. The former Environment Minister claimed more than £30,000 in bogus mortgage payments.

A Labour MP has urged the Metropolitan Police to mount a criminal investigation into the parliamentary expenses claims of former Cabinet minister David Laws.

Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws will be suspended from the Commons for seven days over a breach of parliamentary expenses rules.