A GOVERNMENT committee has recommended that Lord Hanningfield be suspended from the House of Parliament following false claims in expenses.
The Privileges committee today released its findings following an investigation into the peer and has recommended he be suspended, and ordered to pay back £3,300 in wrongly claimed expenses.
The House of Lords launched an investigation in December after the Daily Mirror filmed Hanningfield clocking into Parliament on 19 occasions in July 2013, collecting a total of £5,700 in attendance allowance and claiming £470 for travel costs.
On 11 of those 19 visits he was there for no more than 40 minutes, with his shortest stay clocked at 21 minutes, racking up £3,300 from the daily £300 allowance.
