Posts Tagged ‘expenses’
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Baroness Boothroyd, former speaker of the Commons, says that MPs who abused the expenses system “disgraced” Parliament.

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Betty Boothroyd annoyed by ‘greedy’ MPs
Tags: Abuse, abused-the-expenses, baroness-boothroyd, boothroyd, commons, expenses, former-speaker, parliament, race, speaker, the-expenses
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Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Ex-Labour MP David Chaytor spends his first night in Wandsworth prison after being jailed for 18 months for fiddling his expenses.

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Ex-MP spends first night in jail
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
MPs will debate the body which runs their expenses later, amid continuing anger about the new claims system.

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MPs to debate expenses watchdog
Tags: amid-continuing, body, debate-the-body, expenses, the-body, the-new, their-expenses, will-debate
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
David Laws plays down talk of an early return to the cabinet, saying a standards inquiry into his expenses could ‘take some time’.

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Laws playing down early comeback
Tags: cabinet, david-laws, early-return, expenses, plays-down, standards-inquiry, take-some, the-cabinet
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Three former Labour MPs should face criminal trials over their expenses claims, the Supreme Court has ruled.

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Ex-MPs lose expenses trial appeal
Tags: criminal-trials, expenses, expenses-claims, labour, should-face, supreme, supreme-court
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Three ex-Labour MPs facing trials over their expenses appeal to the UK’s highest court that they should be tried by Parliament.

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Ex MPs make new expenses appeal
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
Three ex-Labour MPs facing trials over their expenses appeal to the UK’s highest court that they should be tried by Parliament.

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Ex MPs make new expenses appeal
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
The ornamental duck island which sank the career of a Tory MP at the height of the expenses scandal is sold for charity.

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Quacking profit: Expenses MP sells duck island
Tags: career, expenses, height, island-which, ornamental-duck, sank-the-career, the-expenses, the-height
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