New report due on Conway expenses

Mr Conway is to stand down at the next election

A standards watchdog will release a second report later on MP Derek Conway's employment of his sons at taxpayer's expense.

Mr Conway has already been censured by the Standards and Privileges Committee for payments to his son Freddie, who was a student in Newcastle at the time.

It is to release a second report on payments to his elder son Henry, after a complaint from Labour MP John Mann.

The case prompted a row about MPs' expenses that continues a year later.

Last week the government backed down on plans to exempt details of MPs' claims from the Freedom of Information Act - after efforts by campaigners to see detailed breakdowns and receipts of items claimed by MPs.

The Commons stopped short of a ban on MPs' employing relatives, although family members are now declared.

On 28 January 2008, the standards and privileges committee upheld a complaint against Mr Conway, the Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup, that he had overpaid Freddie - who was a full-time student in Newcastle at the time - and should repay