A wide-ranging inquiry into MPs' expenses is being considered by the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life, the BBC has learned.
The investigation could also consider MPs' pay and their office expenditure. It comes as employment minister Tony McNulty says he did not break any rules by claiming an allowance for a home in London where his parents live. Mr McNulty himself said the rules should be looked into after claiming a second-home allowance for the property in his Harrow East constituency, in north-west London. His main home is eight miles away in Hammersmith, west London.
Earlier this year Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had to defend her actions after it emerged she had claimed about £116,000 in expenses for her family home in the West Midlands after declaring her sister's property in London - where she stayed four days a week - as her main residence.
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