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Peer denies £100,000 expenses claim
Updated on 03 May 2009
Source ITN
A Labour peer is facing claims that she made £100,000 in expenses by listing an empty flat as her main home.
Newspaper reports said Baroness Uddin registered the two-bedroom flat in Maidstone, Kent, as her main home, even though she lived a few miles away from Westminster in a house in Wapping, east London.
The reports said the arrangement meant she was able to able to claim the controversial parliamentary second home allowance on the Wapping property.
Neighbours were quoted as saying that nobody lived in the Maidstone flat and it was not even furnished.
MP Angus Robertson, the leader of the Scottish National Party at Westminster, said he would now be asking both the police and the House of Lords authorities to investigate the allegations.
Lady Uddin, who became Britain's first woman Muslim peer in 1998, said in a solicitor's statement: "I do not believe that I have done anything wrong or breached any House of Lords rules. Should the relevant House of Lords authorities wish to investigate the matter I will, of course, co-operate fully."
The statement added: "The Wapping house is rented, while I own the property in Maidstone. The Maidstone property is furnished and I strongly deny that I have never lived there. Indeed I have stayed there regularly since buying it."
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