Eric Evlyn Illsley is a former British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley Central from 1987 until 2011. He was a Labour Party representative until suspended from the party after being charged with false accounting as part of the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal,and then sat as an Independent. When he pleaded guilty to three counts of false accounting on 11 January 2011,he became the first sitting Member of Parliament to be convicted of a criminal offence in the scandal. Illsley resigned from the House of Commons on 8 February 2011,following his conviction,and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on 10 February 2011.
Denis MacShane is a British former politician,author and commentator who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He joined the Labour Party in 1970 and has held most party offices. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham from 1994 to his resignation in 2012.
David Michael Chaytor is a former British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury North from 1997 to 2010. He was the first member of Parliament to be sentenced following the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009.
Elliot Anthony Morley is a British former Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament for Glanford and Scunthorpe from 1987 to 1997 and then Scunthorpe from 1997 to 2010. In 2009,he was accused by The Daily Telegraph of continuing to claim parliamentary expenses for a mortgage that had already been repaid. Morley was prosecuted and on 7 April 2011 pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to two counts of false accounting,involving over £30,000. On 20 May 2011,he was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment. He was released from prison on 20 September 2011 having served a quarter of his sentence.
Christopher Graham Davies is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. He is a former Member of Parliament. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for North West England from 1999 to 2014 and from 2019 to 2020.
Densmore Ronald "Den" Dover is a British politician. Representing the Conservative Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Chorley from 1979 to 1997. He then served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the region of North West England,from 1999 to 2009.
Ashley Mote was a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2004 to 2009. Elected representing the UK Independence Party,he became a non-inscrit one month into his term after UKIP withdrew the whip from him due to investigation into his expenses.
South Thanet is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK parliament since 2015 by Craig Mackinlay MP,a Conservative.
Ned O'Keeffe is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister of State for Food from 1997 to 2001. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency from 1982 to 2011. He was a Senator from May 1982 to November 1982,after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
James Devine is a former Member of Parliament. He was the Labour Party member for Livingston from 2005 until 2010 and Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party between 1994 and 1995.
Thomas Harold Wise is a former Independent and UKIP Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England. A former police officer,he was elected in 2004 as a member of the UK Independence Party but later had the whip withdrawn when allegations of misuse of parliamentary expenses surfaced in The Sunday Telegraph. Following an inquiry carried out by the European Anti-Fraud Office,Wise was formally charged with false accounting and money laundering by Bedfordshire Police. After initially pleading not guilty,he admitted the charges and was sentenced in November 2009 at Southwark Crown Court to a two-year term of imprisonment. He is thought to be the first MEP to be jailed for expenses fraud. Sentencing him,the judge said that Wise had engaged in "deliberate and blatant dishonesty" and had set about to defraud the European Parliament almost as soon as he was elected.
Craig Robert Thomson is an Australian former trade union official and a former politician implicated in the Health Services Union expenses affair.
Nicole Sinclaire is a British politician and former leader of the We Demand a Referendum Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2009 to 2014.
Mark Francis Watts,is a former Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP),and now public affairs lobbyist and public relations advisor,having represented South East England United Kingdom from 1994 to 2004.
The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009,concerning expenses claims made by members of the British Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the previous years. The disclosure of widespread misuse of allowances and expenses permitted to Members of Parliament (MPs) aroused widespread anger among the UK public and resulted in a large number of resignations,sackings,de-selections and retirement announcements together with public apologies and the repayment of expenses. Several members or former members of both the House of Commons,and members of the House of Lords,were prosecuted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment.
Craig Mackinlay is a Conservative Party politician and businessman. Since May 2015,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet.
Bashir Khanbhai was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England.
Janice Ann Atkinson is a former British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region. She formerly represented the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and later sat as an independent:she was elected in 2014,second on the list for the region behind Nigel Farage. In March 2015,she was expelled from UKIP for "bringing the party into disrepute" after her chief of staff was recorded trying to fraudulently inflate her expenses.
Christopher Paul Davies is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brecon and Radnorshire from 2015 to 2019. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
The United Kingdom General Election 2015 –Party Spending Investigation was a probe involving the UK Electoral Commission,numerous police forces,and the Crown Prosecution Service into spending by political parties and candidates,primarily during the 2015 general election campaign. This co-ordinated investigation has been described as 'an unprecedented and extraordinary situation'.
