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Labour MP Clive Betts | Participated in a bogus immigration bid by a former male escort who worked as his assistant | Banned from Commons for 7 days |
Conservative MP Michael Trend | Wrongly claimed more than £90,000 worth of expenses | Banned from Commons for 2 weeks |
Labour MP Keith Vaz | Convicted of 'a contempt' of the Commons and serious breaches of the MPs' code of conduct, gave 'misleading information' about his financial links to the Hinduja brothers | Banned from Commons for 1 month |
Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson | Failed to register a £200,000 payment from a company belonging to former Labour MP and criminal Robert Maxwell | Banned from Commons for 3 weeks |
Conservative MP Teresa Gorman | Failed to register rented properties in Portugal; gave "seriously misleading" information about connections with offshore companies; introducing a Bill to change the Rent Act without declaring a financial interest; gave misleading information about interests in offshore companies | Banned from Commons for 1 month |
Labour MP Don Touhig | Leaked a select committee report on child benefit | Banned from Commons for 3 days |
Labour MP Kali Mountford | Let Mr Touhig see a photocopy of a draft document, denied the leak at first but forced to admitted it | Banned from Commons for 5 days |
Labour MP Ernie Ross | Leaked a Foreign Affairs Select Committee report to Foreign Secretary Robin Cook | Banned from Commons for 2 weeks without pay |
Labour MP Fiona Jones | Convicted in the courts of falsely declaring expenses for 1997 general election | Disqualified from parliament but won an appeal resumed her seat |
Labour MP Ronnie Campbell | Called the a Tory Shadow Minister a 'hypocrite' | Ordered out of Commons for the rest of the day |
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon | Accepted a bung of £300,000 over a Greek island development project | Cleared of corruption because he is too dim to know when he is being bribed! |
London's mayor Ken Livingstone | Was rude to a pushy Jewish journalist while off duty | Suspended on full pay, for 4 weeks In effect, he got a 4-week holiday with pay! |