United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal lodged against the High Court ruling, and the requested details were made public on 23 May 2008. Prior to "The Daily Telegraph"'s revelations in May and June 2009 and the official publication of expenses claims in June 2009, and during the Freedom of Information cases, there were a variety of exposés that covered the controversial John Lewis List (a list considered to indicate amounts that could be claimed without question) and individual MPs’ expenses claims. Examples of items publicised prior to the May 2009 disclosures included: In May 2009, two months prior to the official disclosure of full expenses claims,
Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority general public, although there was some criticism of the continued ability of MPs to employ one family member. Before the formation of IPSA, MPs were able to determine their own salaries and expenses. After the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, this role was taken from politicians and given to IPSA. In July 2015, IPSA announced that MPs' salaries would be increased from £67,000 to £74,000. They stated this "one-off adjustment" was needed to correct disparities between MPs and the rest of the public sector in terms of pay and pensions which they felt was the result of successive governments' reluctance to