It's okay, children
| 15:14 UK time, Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Initial reports that Labour Deputy leader and Commons leader Harriet Harman planned to stop MPs from employing their children might have cast a shadow over many a Parliamentary household. Indeed Northern Ireland MPs Peter and Iris Robinson were mentioned in a news item as employing their children. But there's no need to tighten the holiday budget - as it has been made clear that the proposal is not retrospective. However from October MPs will have to provide the Commons with details of their employees job descriptions and contracts.
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