Dozens of MPs refusing to pay back expenses to Sir Thomas Legg
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MPs' expenses: repayments will top £1 million following audit by Sir Thomas Legg
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
So far, 166 MPs have come forward to admit that they have been asked to repay a total of just under £300,000 by Sir Thomas Legg, following his audit of allowances dating back five years.
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Thomas Legg apologises to Ken Clarke over expenses miscalculation
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Sir Thomas Legg has offered Ken Clarke an ''unreserved apology'' after asking him to repay £3000 too much during his inquiry into MPs' expenses.
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MPs expenses: Sir Thomas Legg's own spending questioned
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Sir Thomas Legg the auditor investigating MPs' expenses claims is facing questions about his own use of public money.
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MPs' bid to avoid paying back expenses boosted by Legg error
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Moves to force MPs to payback misclaimed expenses suffered a major blow as auditor Sir Thomas Legg admitted he had blundered over bills owed by top Tory Kenneth Clarke
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The Legg Review
The Burstow Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
News reaches me that Thomas Legg has written to Ken Clarke to say 'Sorry, we got our sums wrong, we only want you to repay about a grand and a half now'. Doesn't this really sum up this entire shabby business? That not even the independent auditor of the accounts of Members can keep his house in order. First we get a government which will not keep MP pay rates in line with other Parliamentarians...
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MPs' expenses: four police files go to prosecutors
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... to CPS consideration on whether there should be any charges". Police have been liaising with Sir Thomas Legg, who is carrying out an audit of MPs’ expenses, and are believed to have taken witness statements from senior civil servants and members of the Fees Office who processed the suspected claims. Witnesses, including constituency workers and banking officials, have also been interviewed...
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MPs' expenses: six MPs and peers face fraud charges
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Police are liaising with Sir Thomas Legg, who is carrying out a full audit of MPs expenses, and are believed to have taken witness statements from senior civil servants and members of the Fees Office who processed the suspected claims. Witnesses, including constituency workers and banking officials, have also been interviewed by police as detectives build up a file of evidence.
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Numerology: Money Spent on Additional Cost Allowance 2005-2008 vs Repayments following Legg Report
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
There has been a lot of trumpetting goung on about how the repayments due from MPs after the Legg Report Audit are now going to top one million pounds : I thought it would be useful to put this in context. It amounts to slightly over 2% of the Additional Cost Allowance expenditure over the period covered by the Legg Report. There has been a lot of trumpetting about how the repayments...
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10 things John Redwood should apologise for
Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... for decorating a bedsit ... and claiming it twice! 7. Refusing to divulge the contents of Sir Thomas Legg's letter on repayment of expenses. 8. Opposing the lowering of the age of consent for homosexuality. 9. Not shutting up, when John Major told him to "put up or shut up". 10. Putting up, when told to "put up or shut up", dividing his Party and (to the delight...
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Goodbye Andrew Mackay confront Andrew MacKay MP
Bracknell Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... home allowance on a property his wife Julie Kirkbride MP nominated as her first home. After Sir Thomas Legg report Andrew Mackays leaving parashoot has already been reduced to £10,000 from £65,000The video taken by the Campaign Group Goodbye Andrew Mackay is shown below. Julie Kirkbride MP looks set to restand in a Bromsgrove Open Primary see the Quaequam Blog here Goodbye...
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MPs in expenses claims row get final bill for £1m
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
MPs today received the final demand for repayments as the process of righting the wrongs of the Commons expenses system entered its final phase. The man charged with retrospectively auditing the expense claims, Sir Thomas Legg, has now told MPs what he believes they owe after a period of appeal. This will not end the discontent about allowances. All sides of the house will make representations...
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MPs face demands of six-figure sums in second wave of expense inquiry
Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
MPs will today face demands from Sir Thomas Legg to pay back six-figure sums after he took an “uncompromising” attitude towards past expense claims.
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MPs Need To Earn Our Money
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... three knights from the ranks of the Great and the Good has led only to dispute and confusion. Sir Thomas Legg's examination of past expenses may have usefully highlighted some gross and even criminal irregularities. But he has also formulated some odd, retrospective rules of his own, which almost make you feel sympathy for MPs. We also have proposed new rules about expenses from Sir...
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Julie Kirkbride: Under-fire Tory MP rethinking decision to resign
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Julie Kirkbride, the Tory MP for Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, is considering standing for parliament at the next election despite telling voters in May that she was leaving in the wake of the expenses controversy. She hopes that Sir Thomas Legg, the Commons auditor who has been reviewing the expenses claims of all MPs, will produce a report that clears her name. Senior Tories at the...