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  1. Former Livingston MP to face criminal trial over expenses

    10 November: Supreme Court rules that Jim Devine and two other accused are not protected by parliamentary privilege.

  2. Parking costs and taxi fares revealed in new MPs' expenses

    24 June: Members of the House of Commons spent £10 million in the last six months of 2009.

  3. Former MP Jim Devine to stand trial over expenses fraud allegations

    11 June: VIDEO: Judge rules that former Livingston MP could not claim parliamentary privilege to prevent prosecution.

  4. Expenses charge MPs: We should not face trial

    30 March: UPDATE: Lawyers acting for Jim Devine and his Labour colleagues say the cases against them should be dealt with by Parliament, not the courts.

  5. Jim Devine bailed over expenses charges

    11 March: UPDATE: Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will now stand trial for false accounting at Southwark Crown Court.

  6. Expenses charge MPs suspended from Labour party

    08 February: Livingston MP Jim Devine and his Labour colleagues have had the party whip withdrawn as they await criminal trial for false accounting.

  7. Jim Devine 'astonished and devastated' by charges

    05 February: MP for Livingston denies any wrongdoing and is determined to 'explain charges in court'.

  8. Jim Devine MP facing criminal charges over expenses

    05 February: Labour MP for Livingston is to be prosecuted over his expenses, it has been revealed.

  9. MPs got away with their expenses, mostly. Shame on them.

    05 February: Opinion: Pathetic attempts to smear Alex Salmond over a lunch that has not even happened yet pale into insignificance beside the great MP's expenses...

  10. Former Scottish MPs in Sir Thomas Legg's report

    04 February: Irene Adams, John Lyons and David Stewart still have payments outstanding, while Tam Dalyell and Iain Luke have paid the money back.

  11. Jim Murphy : MPs’ expenses verdict from Sir Thomas Legg

    04 February: Mr Murphy represents East Renfrewshire.

  12. Pete Wishart: MPs’ expenses verdict from Sir Thomas Legg

    04 February: Mr Wishart represents Perth & North Perthshire.

  13. Scottish MPs’ expenses in full

    05 February: Sir Thomas Legg has given his verdict on the expenses of all 59 Scottish members of the House of Commons.

  14. Danny Alexander: MPs' expenses verdict from Sir Thomas Legg

    04 February: Mr Alexander represents Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey.

  15. Douglas Alexander: MPs' expenses verdict from Sir Thomas Legg

    04 February: Mr Alexander represents Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

About MPs Expenses

The disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament is an ongoing political topic in the United Kingdom. It involves the disclosure of alleged misuse of the permitted allowances and expenses claimed by Members of Parliament and attempts by MPs to exempt themselves from Freedom of Information legislation. The situation came to a head in May 2009 with a series of allegations printed in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers.

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