As usual the Tories have double standards.
Any working class person stealing £200,000 of public money would be sacked,prosecuted and imprisoned.
Why is David Cameron not prepared to sack a greedy , arrogant criminal ?
The usual Tory hypocrisy....more sleaze, just like the old Thatcher days.

Martin cooper, LONDON,

The whole public sector has become an overpaid gravy train for freeloaders, second raters and incompetent bureaucrats. MPs are just one part of this system.

Pay, pensions, working hours and job security are all now better in the public sector when compared to the genuinely world class private sector that is paying for it. Public sector outcomes in health, education, regulation are struggling along at levels comparable to Slovenia or Slovakia.

We need fewer MPs with bigger constituencies and modern constitutional empowerment of parliament.

MPs fully deserve the contempt they are held in as long as they continue to defend the status quo, fail to modernise and are unwilling to eliminate the public sector's 19th century spanish practices.

Going onto Question time (Clarke and Woodward) and claiming Conway is just a one-off - is a completely unacceptable response.

Stephen Sinclair, London, UK

All MP's have had their snouts in the trough, since the days of 'Rotten Boroughs', what's different now?
The only way to clean up their act is full transparency, but we will never have it.

Howard, Basildon, England

Looks like Cameron has had little choice but to 'come clean' here - having family members 'on board the Gravy train' himself. I don't see it as a sign of his honesty. He has clearly had no choice but to do so to avoid any further embarrassment..... Labour and the Lib-Dems have done themselves no favours by closing ranks. A sorry bunch of people to be in charge of us. Are we supposed to look up to them?

Paul Williams, Egham, UK

Corruption, Fraud, it stinks, I am a life long voter over 60, I have made a vow never to vote again for any party, they are ALL as bad, self seaking money grabbers, not motivated to serve the country and people who vote for them, but to line their own pockets, with large pay rises, dodgy expenses, and hidden agenda,s, CLEAN UP THE ACT NOW.

nora, stoke on trent, england

As this is tax payers money, were the jobs advertised as is required under the law for public services? I think not.

Steve T, cambridge, cambridgeshire

Nepotism, is rife amongst our MPs, gor bless em they are truly Thatchers children, just looking after their own.

The 'I'm alright jack' society is so clearly alive and well how sad after so many years of a Labour Government.

Thank you Mrs. Thatcher your legacy is well entrenched in the fabric of British society.

Georgina Moles, Norwich, UK

My wife worked for a Lib Dem MP for 3 years. The MP's wife was being paid (substantially) to deal with his general correspondence (letters congratulating people who had achieved something locally or nationally etc). This was despite the fact that she had a full-time job. So it appears to make no difference which party they represent. As for the recruitment procedure followed for employing Researchers,Annie's views can certainly be confirmed.

Mark,Bristol,UK

Mark Saunders, Bristol,

Theft.
Pure and simple.
So how come an MP is still there in his job.
If i stole and i was found out i would:

a) loose my job
b) be arrested
c) taken to court
d) if found guilty, be punished

How can anyone of us trust politicians when their are held to a standard that wreaks of a "club"?

Kambiz Shahri, Pretoria, South Africa

Is this award to recognise her pigheaded determination to destroy the mining industry, and other indistries, in this country? She is a witch of the highest order not even reach by Harry Potter and other aspiring witches and wizards!

TIM, keighley, west yorks

It is not sufficient to declare whether or not MPs employ family members. How about declaring the recruitment exercise (or lack thereof)? It is a shame that a time when all organisations are required by law to ensure transparent recruitment policies, the same does not seem to apply to MPs. Now i know whey some of my friends did not gain employment as researchers to MPs. The MPs were and probably still are busy giving it to their family and friends.

Annie, Cambridge, UK