MP's Children Off of the Payroll.

New government proposals, intended to clean up parliamentary allowances, will mean MP's will no longer be able to employ their children. However, the new proposals won't reach as far as MP's husbands, wives and partners who could still be paid at the tax payers expense!

Plans to tighten up the employment of parliamentary staff came to fruition after reports of how Derek Conway used public money to overpay one of his sons by £13,000 out of the £100,000 allowance that he receives to hire staff. According to disclosures made by the parliamentary authorities, at least a further 22 MP's have their own children on the payroll.

The good news for the children who currently work for their (MP) parents is that the ban would not be retrospective, meaning they can carry on in their current posts - nice work if you can get it!