"Employment minister Tony McNulty could face a police investigation over his controversial expenses claims, police said tonight.
Scotland Yard confirmed it was considering a complaint that McNulty may have "obtained pecuniary advantage by deception".
In March, it emerged that McNulty had claimed about £60,000 from Commons allowances since 2002 towards maintaining a house where his parents lived.
He was able to receive the money because the property - which he owns - is in his Harrow constituency, just 11 miles from parliament.
The MP lives with his wife in her house three miles from Westminster, but insisted he had not broken any rules because he sometimes did work at the Harrow property.
However, he also told the Mail on Sunday in March that he had stopped claiming the second home allowance of up to £24,000 a year, and called for MPs who live within 60 miles of parliament to be banned from getting it."
However I have the utmost faith that either the police or the CPS will declare that "a prosecution would not be in the public interest" or that there is "insufficient evidence to prosecute". The system works against the public and in favour of the ruling party; we, the people, deserve better.
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