Expenses: Just a Friendly Reminder

Tony McNulty: the employment minister claimed £14,000 per year on his parents’ house in his constituency in Harrow. He insists he acted within the rules.

Jacqui Smith: the home secretary is facing an inquiry after claiming £20,000 per year on her home in her constituency in Redditch, saying that her sister's home in London was her main residence. She denies any wrong doing.

Caroline Spelman: The Meriden MP was told to pay back £9,600 after the parliamentary standards commissioner found that she had unintentionally breached Commons rules by paying her children's nanny through Parliamentary allowances, saying that the nanny was working as a constituency secretary.

Nicholas and Ann Winterton: the husband and wife who are both MPs in Cheshire were found to have breached the expenses rule when they claimed £21,600 per year in rent on their London flat after paying off the mortgage and transferring the ownership of the £700,000 property into a family trust.

Derek Conway: the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup was suspended from the Commons and ordered to return £13,161 in January 2008 for paying more than £200,000 to his family, including to his youngest son, Freddie, who was a full time student in Newcastle at the time.

Tory Anthony Steen, who become embroiled in the expenses controversy for spending £90,000 on his second home over four years, launched an astonishing defence of his spending yesterday.

He said: "I've done nothing criminal, that's the most awful thing, and do you know what it's about? Jealousy. I've got a very, very large house. Some people say it looks like Balmoral. It's a merchant's house of the 19th century. It's not particularly attractive, it just does me nicely.”

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/

http://www.northernexposureni.com/2009/05/sinn-feins-expensive-principles.html

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mps/