The attorney-general, Baroness Scotland, is facing serious questions about payments of £170,000 that Cabinet Office rules say she was not entitled to receive.
Scotland is already at the centre of a row after she was found to be employing an illegal immigrant as a cleaner.It emerged yesterday that she has for years been receiving an allowance intended for peers who live outside London, despite saying her main home is in the capital.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Baroness Scotland faces questions over £170,000 expenses
More pressure on the attorney-general. Again from the Sunday Times:
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