National is set to have two former tobacco industry lobbyists standing for Parliament this year with the selection of Todd Barclay in the safe seat of Clutha-Southland.

Labour has sent Official Information Acts requests to several ministers asking whether they had a dress code.

John Key has confirmed that United Future leader Peter Dunne will be reinstated as a minister, and says National could work with NZ First or the Conservative Party.

Parliament's Speaker, David Carter, has sought a review of Maori protocols at Parliament.

The man who took a successful private prosecution against John Banks has threatened to take one over Labour leader David Cunliffe's by-election tweet.

Act Leader John Banks' decision to leave Parliament at the next election under the cloud of electoral fraud charges is not the end of the party, its president John Boscawen says.

Greens co-leader Russel Norman is facing a challenge for the party leadership from a low-ranking Greens candidate.

Russel Norman was heckled in Parliament this week when he used the opportunity to express NZ's sympathy for the Philippines to deliver a harangue on the perils of climate change.

To accept the idea of being under constant observation is to accept imprisonment - ironically by the Land of the Free, writes Chris Barton.

What's his game? Is the PM misinformed? Or deliberately spreading misinformation? Chris Barton looks at the issues on the copper tax debate.

The Opposition says an email produced by John Key in Parliament today effectively tells Parliamentary Service to hand over confidential phone records.

Peter Dunne said he was told by the head of an inquiry into the GCSB report leak that he intended to access his phone records along with a press gallery journalist.

New documents show the David Henry inquiry asked Parliamentary Service for access to the phone records of Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance - but they were declined.

The service that provides ministers with chauffeur-driven and self-drive cars is always a touchy one with some taxpayers, considering it costs more than $7 million a year.

Rules for accessing emails, security pass details and other information inside Parliament will be reviewed after concerns an MP and a journalist were tracked without permission.

United Future leader Peter Dunne says he has been cleared by the Speaker of misleading a select committee about leaking a confidential report.

Independent MP Peter Dunne will submit 500 individually signed declarations from members in an effort to register the United Future party today.

Labour MPs have different attitudes to their behaviour in a Parliamentary select committee. Phil Goff says he shouldn't have sworn, but Trevor Mallard is unapologetic for arguing and storming out.

The number of lobbyists approved for a free pass in Parliament by the Speaker has doubled in the past year.

United Future Peter Dunne is expected to spend the week settling into his much smaller office at Parliament.