SIR – The chair of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Sir Ian Kennedy, has said that gains from rises in the value of second homes “should not be retained” by MPs.

Back in May last year, Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, called for MPs to be banned from making a profit from selling second homes bought using their Commons allowances.

It’s a call he has renewed, as well as pledging to support any legislation needed to make payback of sale profits from the taxpayer-funded second homes of MPs possible.

The public will expect Gordon Brown and David Cameron to make a similar commitment.

We Lib Dems remain committed to returning the highest standards of probity to public life.

Councillor Nader Fekri (Lib Dem, Calder Ward), Hope Street, Hebden Bridge