So reports the Daily Mail:
"Senior Tory Caroline Spelman is set to keep her shadow cabinet job after a report into the "Nannygate" affair found her guilty only of inadvertent breaches of Commons rules. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon was mildly critical of her but concluded there were "grey areas" on current rules, sources said."
The BBC is, however, saying that she will be ordered to repay some money.
I’m delighted for Caroline Spelman. Let the matter rest there. Having watched what Betsy Duncan Smith went through in the investigation of her work for her husband, I should imagine recent long months have been gruelling.
Tim Montgomerie
Wednesday morning update:
Mrs Spelman issued this statement:
"I fully accept the findings of this inquiry which I sought because I wanted the opportunity to clear my name. I am glad the committee finds that the work done by Tina Haynes met a genuine need for an assistant in the constituency, that she was qualified to do the job and that the work was done. However, as the Committee notes, the arrangements had the unintended effect of misapplying some of my Parliamentary allowances for non-Parliamentary purposes, for which I am sorry. This is a finding which I take very seriously and I will of course immediately pay the money in question back. The Committee makes clear that this breach of the rules on my part was unintended. It took place more than a decade ago when I was a new MP. But I apologise sincerely for it: I fully accept people have a right to expect the highest standards from people in public life."