Sentences with phrase «mp claiming expenses»

Phillip Mawer, parliamentary commissioner for standards, has called for radical reform to the way MPs claim expenses.

Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, said that a «culture of abuse» had developed among MPs claiming expenses.

Not exact matches

His «modest» expenses put him in the bottom 20 per cent of claiming MPs.

The decision to allow over 50 MPs to escape revealing details about their landlords is prompting claims of another expenses cover - up.

David Cameron could lose one of his prized four female Cabinet ministers if MPs condemn culture secretary Maria Miller over her expenses claims

This year the biggest scalp from the dodgy expenses claims MPs made in the noughties was Denis MacShane, the former Europe minister, who got six months behind bars for his deliberately fraudulent claims.

This category is not analysed separately here since the vast majority of MPs file no related claims and the average expense is only 112 GBP.

Its draconian approach to expenses claims has left it deeply unpopular with MPs and has not stopped negative news stories about MPs» expenses continuing to emerge regularly.

MPs can claim travel expenses for journeys «which are necessarily incurred in the performance of the MP's parliamentary functions» (Section 9.2 of «The Scheme»).

«MPs have been forced to borrow money from their parents because the Commons expenses watchdog is trying to «screw them into the ground», a Tory backbencher claimed yesterday.

In December 2010, it emerged that Harman was amongst 40 MPs who had secretly repaid wrongly claimed expenses between 2008 and 2010.

The government wants changes in place by July - the same month all MPs» expenses claims, with receipts, dating back to 2004 are due to be published after a long Freedom of Information battle.

The period covered by the latest receipts came at a time when MPs knew that at least some details of their expenses claims were to be published under Freedom of Information rules.

The Prime Minister has told MPs he thought it was right to allow Maria Miller «the chance to get on with her job» following the controversy over her expenses claims.

MPs justified themselves in the expenses scandal by protesting that they hadn't broken a rule; maybe they didn't need to claim for a second house but doing so was allowed and therefore no wrong was perpetrated.

David Cameron has reiterated his support for Culture Secretary Maria Miller after she was forced to apologise to MPs over a report into her expenses claims.

On the day letters are sent out to MPs raising questions over expenses claims, a report by the Commons standards and privileges committee orders former home secretary Jacqui Smith to apologise for breaching rules on second home expenses.

Newsnight's David Grossman looks at the revelations in the latest MPs expenses claims which have been released by the Commons.

Douglas Hogg, the former Conservative cabinet minister who played a notable part in the MPs» expenses scandal after it was alleged that he had claimed money for the clearing of the moat at his country house in Lincolnshire, has emerged as a frontrunner to win a hereditary place in the House of Lords.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller is facing fresh questions about her expenses claims after it was reported that she stopped claiming a second home allowance at around the time MPs were asked to sign a declaration that they would pay tax on any such property when it was sold.

The government has tried to turn the tide of the expenses scandal by creating a new independent body to scrutinise MPs» claims.

I can't recall exactly which MPs flipped their mortgages or who claimed for a duck house on their expenses.

Three former MPs seeking to avoid a criminal trial over their expenses claims have received a setback - but still been allowed to appeal to the supreme court.

I genuinely feel quite bad about this as the bill often runs to a couple of hundred pounds, if not more (as it's a party event, MPs and staff can't claim it back on parliamentary expenses).

MPs» personal expenses claims remained broadly flat but expenditure on staffing budgets jumped upwards.

He called on the House of Commons to change the rules whereby MPs do not have to submit receipts for expenses claims below # 250.

A total of 44 MPs had their expenses claims rejected in the final two months of 2010, the parliamentary watchdog has revealed.

Fewer MPs would cost us less - with fewer politicians claiming expenses.

The scandal lifted the lid on the vast expenses claims made by all 646 MPs.

Parliament will introduce a new auditing unit for expenses and also plans to bring forward the publication of details of MPs» claims.

Correspondence seen by The Daily Telegraph suggests that some of the MPs have been claiming for the country homes for many years, stretching back to when receipts were not necessary for parliamentary expenses.

Over the past four days, the Telegraph has published a series of articles detailing questionable expense claims made by MPs from all political parties, including members of the Cabinet and shadow cabinet.

Of MPs with controversial expense claims, he tells the letters» readers that «I don't care if they were within the rules — they were wrong.»

In May and June 2009 revelations of MPs» expenses claims caused a major scandal and loss of confidence by the public in the integrity of MPs, [7] as well as causing the first forced resignation of the Speaker in 300 years.

In future, MPs should only be able to claim for rent or hotel costs, while the expenses scheme should only cover council tax, utility bills, telephone line rental and calls, security, contents insurance, and removals at the beginning and end of a tenancy.

The aftermath of the controversy has seen the Commons vote through a num - ber of changes already, such as stopping outer London MPs claiming for second homes, getting MPs to publish all receipts to back up all expense claims, and making public full details of second jobs, which has already begun.

This extra expenditure was made without any supplementary budget from the two embattled MPs and their districts have complained that nothing can be shown for the massive expenses claimed by the MPs.

As Sam Coates observes, the new system of claiming expenses ironically means «the new generation of MPs is paying for the crimes of the last.»

Three former Labour MPs and a peer seeking to avoid facing a criminal trial over their expenses claims will have their parliamentary privilege defence tested by the high court today.

The Queen should call a snap election to clean up parliament in the wake of the row over MPs» expenses, it was claimed today.

Ms Harman was revealing the government's plans for cleaning up Parliament in the wake of public anger over MPs» expenses claims.

The full list of what MPs claimed for on their expenses, as revealed to date by the Daily Telegraph.

The Daily Telegraph has obtained details of MPs» expenses claims over the past four years which it has published.

Response: The work and pensions minister's spokesman said Ms Ussher «fully supports» the review into MPs» expenses claims and believed it was right that MPs expenses» claims should be published.

If it had been left to MPs to publish their sanitised list of expenses claims in July, we would not have had any idea which of them were up to that particular ploy.

«An investigation will be conducted into claims submitted under the following areas of the third and fourth editions of the MPs» scheme of business costs and expense - accommodation expenditure, travel and subsistence,» he said in a statement.

Iain Duncan Smith has offered tentative support for a proposal to end the right of MPs to regulate their own affairs, warning that the continuing focus on expenses because of the row over Maria Miller's housing claims is «eating away at the credibility of parliament».

And he will not claim any further expenses until Sir Christopher Kelly's Committee on Standards in Public Life produces its report in MPs» pay and perks.

Mr Cameron told the Lib Dem leader not to «put himself on a pedestal» over MPs» expenses, after Mr Clegg repeated his claim that politicians from «both of the old parties» had not been held to account for flipping their second home designations to maximise their income from allowances.

In a shocking twist on the scandal surrounding MPs» outrageous expenses claims, onetime Tory whip Gray moaned he was # 60 down on the deal after buying three poppy tributes to Britain's fallen heroes to place at war memorials in his North Wiltshire constituency.