Friday, October 30, 2009
Minister to repay £14,000 expenses
MARK HENNESSY, London Editor
FORMER LABOUR minister Tony McNulty, who claimed House of Commons expenses for a house in which his parents live in London, has been forced to apologise and ordered to repay nearly £14,000.
Delivering a formal statement in the Commons yesterday, Mr McNulty, whose father emigrated to London from Donegal, apologised “for any part I have played in the diminution of the standing of this House in the eyes of the public”.
He claimed mortgage interest and other expenses totalling almost £14,000 a year for the house in his Harrow East constituency, saying it was his second home – even though his main home is just eight miles away in Westminster.
Mr McNulty faced a seven-month investigation by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Sir John Lyon, who passed his findings to the standards and privileges committee after a complaint was made about him by a Tory MP.
See the full article from “Irish Times”
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