some of these mp's are a disgrace, like pigs in a trough they feed merrily for 4 years on tax payers money,telling us to except a 2% pay rise while increasing there pensions and expenses way above that, and to cap it all they need 18 weeks holiday !!!!! no wonder the public see mp's as the lowest of the low.

chris harris, piagnton, devon

MP's "additional expenses" details should be made available to Joe Public as it is the tax payers hard earned wages that pay for these expenses in the first place. Never mind the invasion of privacy nonsense, if MP's wan to play the "invasion of privacy" card, let them pay for their own "additional expenses" out of their own money, after all, the rest of us seem to manage to clean up after ourselves, Can an MP use a vacuum??

Stuart Reid, Bradford, West Yorkshire

What I fail to understand is the apparent lack by the Inland Revenue to check the validity of MP's expense claims. When I traveled the world on business I submitted expense claims which were rigorously checked by our accounts department to ensure they were valid and didn't come under benefit in kind for taxable purpose's. It seems that MP's can put a vague claim into parliament for expenses that either buy a range of 'gadgets' or just pad their salaries without any oversight or receipts to back up the claim. When I hear of expenses worth three times their salary its has to be said they're either fiddling their expenses of milking the trough of plenty for themselves in unsurpassed greed. No wonder they don't want the public to know what they're getting away with.

Mike, Alicante, Spain