Sentences with phrase «wrongly claimed expenses»

In December 2010, it emerged that Harman was amongst 40 MPs who had secretly repaid wrongly claimed expenses between 2008 and 2010.

Not exact matches

A report published today by the Committee for Privileges and Conduct, which considered the appeal, said: «Lord Bhatia admitted to the commissioner that he had wrongly claimed the mileage expenses from both bodies.

The same sanction was handed down to him in 2010 for wrongly claiming # 27,446 of home - related expenses, which he later repaid.

Beckett was seen as tainted by the expenses row after public fury at her gardening claims, but five potential candidates - including Bercow, who repaid more than # 1,400 he said he had wrongly claimed on office costs - have returned money.

Labour's Ben Chapman declined to stand again after it emerged he had overclaimed on his mortgage by # 15,000, while his party colleague Harry Cohen had a # 65,000 resettlement grant withheld to make up for wrongly claimed accommodation expenses.

It was alleged that he falsely claimed more than # 25,000 of expenses on his second home in London over three years, but today his barrister, William Coker QC, said his client admitted wrongly claiming a revised sum of about # 14,500.

Had the MP for Yeovil been in any other portfolio he might well have survived as a cabinet member even when it was revealed that he had wrongly claimed # 40,000 in parliamentary expenses.

It's a bit like campaigning against rivals by criticising their parliamentary expenses, then having to resign from the Cabinet because you've wrongly claimed forty grand yourself.

However, read strictly, the filing of expense claims as a Senator or other public official is done in the person's official capacity, and repaying money wrongly claimed as an expense would be «in respect of» that act.