5th Feb 10

DPP set to announce decision on charges relating to MPs expenses

by Natasha Redman

A team of prosecutors are set to reveal whether criminal charges will be laid against the MPs and their peers over their expense claims.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is due to release a statement at 11am this morning which follows a police probe into the six MPs.

Police passed on the files on the six, whose names are unconfirmed, to the Crown Prosecutor late in 2009.

It comes just one day after 370 MPs were ordered to repay over £1.1m related to second home expenses since 2004.

The decision of the CPS will highlight a new phase in the saga of parliamentary expenses which has dogged parliament for the past 10 months.

Director of Public Prosectutions, Keir Starmer QC, will announce a decision on a number of files, but it remains unclear exactly how

The identities of the six MPs included in the files has not been released by the CPS or the police.

Two Labour MPs, David Chaytor and Elliot Morley, who are both resigning at the election, and Labour peer Baroness Uddin, have been the subject of lengthy police investigations, while Labour MP Jim Devine, who has also been deselected by his own party in Livingston, has been connected to the investigations.

Police began investigating a small number of MPs and peers in June last year after complaints by members of the public about the misuse of funds disclosed by a daily newspaper.

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