Plans to suspend former Treasury Secretary David Laws from Parliament and order thousands of pounds in expenses repayments are leaked, causing uproar in the House of Commons.
Former environment minister Elliot Morley has pleaded guilty to being Parliament’s biggest expenses cheat.
Channel 4 News is cleared of all allegations by Ofcom regarding complaints from Zac Goldsmith MP following the programme’s investigation into his expenses claims.
The former Labour MP for Livingstone who fiddled his parliamentary expenses and then tried to pin the blame on his office manager has been jailed for 16 months.
Jim Devine, the former Labour MP for Livingston, has been found guilty of two counts of making false expense claims, after the jury was shown his revealing interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
On the day he was charged, Jim Devine admitted to Channel 4 News that he had submitted claims for stationery, that came out of his communications budget.
The Leader of the House of Commons today launched a stinging critique of the MPs’ expenses watchdog as it named more than 125 MPs whose claims had been rejected, as Cathy Newman reports.
Lord Taylor of Warwick has been found guilty of making false expense claims. The jury agreed that he misled the Members’ Expenses Section in the House of Lords, taking more than £11,000.
Former Conservative Peer Lord Taylor of Warwick appears in court accused of falsely claiming more than £11,000 in subsistence and travelling expenses reports Katie Razzall.
Barnsley Central MP Eric Illsley says he is to quit his post after being convicted of dishonestly claiming more than £14,000 in expenses.
Gary Gibbon
He’s the only sitting MP currently up before the courts on expenses. He pleaded guilty in the last hour and the expectation must be that that’ll mean a by-election in Barnsley where he has a, 11,000 majority.
The Barnsley Central MP Eric Illsley becomes the first sitting member to be convicted of expenses fraud. Our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, says he is likely to lose his seat, forcing a by-election.
Former Labour MP David Chaytor is jailed for 18 months for fraudulently claiming Parliamentary expenses.
The Auditor General refuses to sign off last year’s House of Commons accounts in full amid serious concerns about millions of pounds of expenses paid to MPs.
Former Labour MP David Chaytor pleads guilty to three charges of falsely claiming parliamentary expenses in connection with the political scandal that broke last year.