MP Expenses claims – www.parliament.uk.
Here’s the list of what parliament has decided should be omitted from today’s expenses disclosures:
Rejected claims
Any residential address
Regular travel patterns
Names of anyone delivering goods to homes
Money spent on security
Hotels or guest houses used
Letters/emails to Fees Office
Bank/credit card statements
Phone numbers on itemised bills
Personal items not claimed for
Staff names and addresses
Bank/Giro details
Landlord
or mortgage [...]
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Speaker’s fate sealed as Clegg breaks ranks
Nick Clegg has taken the historic step of demanding — as a party leader — that the speaker of the House should go. William Hague declined to be as forthright, in his capacity as de facto Tory deputy, but he made it clear that he believes the same [...]
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Ex-SAS major John Wick exposed as broker in sale of expenses secrets – The Times
So, how much did you think the Telegraph paid for the information it’s been publishing for the last ten days? £10,000? £50,000? More?
According to the Times, the data CDs — which, no matter how much we have a right to see [...]
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