Learn more about MPs' allowances and expenditures with this selection of related links.
Your Right to Know
Heather Brooke's website, which aims to give people the tools they need to challenge and change the system so it becomes more open and accountable to the public
TheyWorkForYou.com: MPs' expenses
Find out how much money your MP has claimed in allowances over the past three years
UK Parliament: Members' Allowance Expenditure 2007-2008
This page gives explanatory information for each column of the Members' allowance expenditure tables for the year 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008
UK Parliament: Register of Members' Interests
The Register of Members' Interests is published soon after the beginning of a new Parliament under the authority of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, and annually thereafter
Channel 4 News: Slap Up Meals at Parliament Prices
News report on the exclusive discounted menus MPs have access to while at Westminster, as revealed by Dispatches
Channel 4 News: FactCheck
Home secretary Jacqui Smith has made a vigorous defence of her use of parliamentary expenses. But do her claims stack up?