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Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick charged with fiddling £11,000 in expenses
The first black Tory peer has been charged with fiddling expenses.
The first black Tory peer has been charged with fiddling expenses.
Lord Taylor of Warwick is the sixth parliamentarian to face charges over the scandal, with police still examining the suspect accounts of a number of politicians.
He is facing charges in relation to claims of £11,000.
It follows disclosures in December that he had allegedly registered a house in Oxford belonging to the partner of his stepbrother's son, without his knowledge or consent.
The peer is accused of declaring the property owned by Tristram Wyatt, a university academic who lives with Lord Taylor's step-nephew Robert Taylor, as his primary residence in order to claim second home expenses.
Lord Taylor has lived in Ealing, West London, since 1995. Peers who live outside the capital can claim £174 a night tax-free to cover the cost of a hotel or a second home.
When questions were first raised about Lord Taylor's use of the House of Lords second-home allowance last summer, he issued a statement disclosing that his main home was a property in which his late mother had lived.
However, it emerged that this house, in Solihull in the West Midlands, had been sold in 2001, shortly before Mrs Taylor's death, while the peer's second-home claims had continued until 2007.
It was later reported that Lord Taylor had in fact registered a home owned by Mr Wyatt, a zoologist, as his principle residence for the purposes of his expenses.
The 57-year-old peer yesterday resigned from the Conservative Party hours after the Crown Prosecution Service revealed that he was facing six charges of false accounting in relation to claims for overnight subsistence and car mileage between March 2006 and October 2007.
He will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court next month.
Lord Taylor was unavailable for comment last night.
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