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Prime Minister David Cameron is facing heavy criticism from MPs for giving lenient treatment to Culture Secretary Maria Miller over her over-claimed expenses case.
The ministers are also raging over Mr Cameron’s claim that MPs did not have the ‘casting vote’ over whether to punish Mrs Miller after she came out clean following an investigation into the matter.
An investigation was prompted into Mrs Miller’s claims during December 2012 after Labour MP John Mann had launched a formal complaint. The complaint addressed that the Culture Minister had allowed Mrs Miller’s parents to live in a property on which she claimed £90,718 in second home allowances on a residence she owned in Wimbledon, south London between 2005 and 2009. The committee has however, rejected the claims that she or her parents had benefited financially from the arrangements.
While the culture secretary was cleared of the main charge of deliberately submitting expenses to which she was not entitled, the Commons Committee on Standards asked her to repay £5,800 to cover over-claiming of mortgage expenses after she failed to cut her claims when interest rates fell.
Also she was ordered to apologise to the MPs as her attitude to the inquiry breached ministers’ code of conduct.
In response, Mrs Miller followed the instructions of Committee and apologised during an address at Commons on Thursday while assuring to fully accept the recommendations of the Committee.
The prime minister has also backed Mrs Miller on Thursday by appreciating that she took full responsibility of her mistake and acted accordingly.
Labour party did not remain silent and launched an attack on the prime minister’s attitude as well.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah has raised questions regarding Mr Cameron’s leadership and the double standards by letting Mrs Miller off the hook.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has also criticised Mr Cameron’s action by saying that the prime minister has made “disastrous error of judgement” by supporting Mrs Miller over expense claims.
During Mr Cameron’s visit to Devon, he has said: “What happened yesterday is that Maria Miller was actually cleared of the original charge made against her.
“It was found that she had made mistakes, she accepted that, repaid the money, she apologised unreservedly to the House of Commons so I think that we should leave it there.”
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