2. Extract from article in the Daily
Telegraph, 26 June 2009
MPs' expenses: the claims not examined by Tory
panel
...
Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP for mid-Bedfordshire,
was one of the most vocal critics of the Daily
Telegraph's expenses investigation. She
claimed that she was the victim of a witch-hunt after being questioned
over her unorthodox arrangements.
Miss Dorries admitted that she only spends spare
weekends and holidays away from her designated "second
home", a flat in her constituency
on which she has claimed £18,000 in rent.
Miss Dorries also said that her youngest daughter
and her pet dogs live at the property. This raises questions whether
it is, in fact, her main residence, which would mean she could
not claim for its upkeep using the second home allowance.
She initially refused to state where her other house
was, but later said it was another rented property near her former
marital home in the Cotswolds. There is no reference to such an
address in any of her expenses files.
However, she is understood to have been cleared by
the scrutiny committee and will not have to repay money.
26 June 2009
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