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26/03/2009
Minister Facing Accommodation Expenses Probe
A Government watchdog is to look into the expenses paid to the Employment Minister, Tony McNulty for his housing arrangements, it has been revealed.
The Parliamentary Commission for Standards said it would investigate claims that he had received around £60,000 to cover the cost of staying at his own parents' home.
Mr McNulty has been paid the money since 2001, for the property in his Harrow constituency in north west London.
He said his claims were within the Commons' rules and that he had stopped receiving the expenses in January.
Mr McNulty said he used the house - which he owns - as a base two or three days a week while working in the constituency, and slept there at weekends when he first entered Parliament.
Mr McNulty's main home is only a few miles away in Hammersmith.
Today John Lyon, who heads the standards commission, said he would act upon a formal complaint, regarding Mr McNulty's Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) claim, made by Tory MP Greg Hands.
A spokeswoman for the Commissioner's office said: "He has accepted a complaint about Mr McNulty."
Under the ACA MPs with constituencies outside inner London can claim up to £24,000 to cover the cost of staying away from their main home while undertaking parliamentary work.
(PR/BMcC)
The Parliamentary Commission for Standards said it would investigate claims that he had received around £60,000 to cover the cost of staying at his own parents' home.
Mr McNulty has been paid the money since 2001, for the property in his Harrow constituency in north west London.
He said his claims were within the Commons' rules and that he had stopped receiving the expenses in January.
Mr McNulty said he used the house - which he owns - as a base two or three days a week while working in the constituency, and slept there at weekends when he first entered Parliament.
Mr McNulty's main home is only a few miles away in Hammersmith.
Today John Lyon, who heads the standards commission, said he would act upon a formal complaint, regarding Mr McNulty's Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) claim, made by Tory MP Greg Hands.
A spokeswoman for the Commissioner's office said: "He has accepted a complaint about Mr McNulty."
Under the ACA MPs with constituencies outside inner London can claim up to £24,000 to cover the cost of staying away from their main home while undertaking parliamentary work.
(PR/BMcC)
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