Police launch Lords expenses probe Police have launched an inquiry into the House of Lords after Lord Hanningfield w as found to have claimed a £300 allowance for days on which he did no parliamentary work. The former Conservative council leader was suspended for the rest of the current Parliament in May by the Lords Privileges and Conduct Committee. He was also ordered to repay £3,300 which he had wrongly claimed. Following a complaint, the Lords Commissioner for Standards, ex-Hampshire chief constable Paul Kernaghan, carried out an inquiry focusing on 11 days in July last year when he spent less than 40 minutes in the parliamentary estate. In his report, Mr Kernaghan found that in making the incorrect claims, Lord Hanningfield ”failed to act on his personal honour”. It has now emerged that the peer was questioned earlier this year as part of a police investigation. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that “a review of allegations of unlawful claiming of allowances at the House of Lords” began after Mr Kernaghan’s report. A spokesman said: ” We can confirm a 73-year-old man attended by appointment an east London police station and was interviewed under caution in relation to an allegation of fraud.” Lord Hanningfield’s case followed an [...] sheffieldinnews/police-launch-lords-expenses-probe/
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 02:15:40 +0000
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