David “the awesome power of the moon” Tredinnick joins the Commons Science Committee

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3. He also claimed some astrology software on expenses

A Conservative MP attempted to claim expenses of £755 for a computer programme that uses astrology to diagnose medical conditions, documents published by parliament today show.

Details of dozens of MPs who had been allowed to apologise for breaking anti-sleaze rules and avoid publication of the details were revealed after the Commons agreed to open up the process of internally investigating MPs for the first time.

David Tredinnick, Conservative MP for Bosworth, claimed for software including the astrology-based medical diagnostic package. In January this year the commissioner wrote that he has a "longstanding interest in complementary and alternative medicine and in its relationship to astrology". Tredinnick is chair of the parliamentary group on complementary healthcare and argued that he was pursuing that interest in his parliamentary duties.

The letter to Michael Barnbrook, who made the complaint, says Tredinnick had agreed to repay the money and later apologised.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/09/tory-mp-david-tredinnick-astrology