David Laws, the Treasury minister who resigned over disclosures about his parliamentary expenses, is facing a police inquiry into his finances.
Mr Laws quit as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in May after The Daily Telegraph disclosed he claimed £40,000 of second home allowances to pay rent to his partner, James Lundie. Since 2006 MPs have been banned from using public money to rent property from partners or relatives.
Mr Laws, the Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil, referred himself to John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, who is poised to investigate.
But it has emerged that a joint panel of Metropolitan Police detectives and senior Crown Prosecution Service officials are to decide whether an external inquiry should be launched.
While coverage of Mr Laws’s claims has so far focused on rent paid to Mr Lundie, it is thought a police inquiry would centre on Mr Laws’s claims for household bills.
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