MPs expenses: Nadine Dorries says main home is tiny Cotswold cottage

By Jon Swaine 700AM GMT nineteen March 2010

Previous of Images Next The chateau declared as the main chateau of Nadine Dorries MP. Photo CLARA MOLDEN Speedwell Farm in Woburn, "second home" of Nadine Dorries Photo JOHN ROBERTSON Nadine Dorries (left) and Esther Rantzen Photo John Robertson / Clara Molden

Nadine Dorries, who has regularly declined to divulge the place of the property, was paid the allowances on the basement that she indispensable dual homes to work in both London and her Mid Bedfordshire seat.

Mrs Dorries is underneath review by John Lyon, the parliamentary government official for standards, who might suggest that she compensate off open supports perceived for undue claims.

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MPs are entitled to explain behind "second home" losses that were "necessarily incurred in staying overnight afar from their main home for the role of behaving their parliamentary duties".

Most appropriate a subdivision chateau as their "main home" and check taxpayers for a prosaic close to Westminster, where they can stay the night after operative in Parliament.

Yet in a rarely surprising arrangement, Mrs Dorries tells Commons officials that her "main home" is a one-bedroomed lodge-keepers lodge in a small Cotswold village, 90 miles afar from Parliament and 55 miles from her constituency.

This allows her to explain "second home" allowances for her family chateau in her constituency, where neighbours have settled that she outlayed a poignant volume of her time.

In all she has claimed �60,524 given 2006. She used the income to compensate the houses �18,000-a-year rent, as well as legislature taxation and alternative made at home bills. She not long ago changed in to a bigger farmhouse half a mile away.

A next door neighbour in the Cotswolds pronounced she knew the MP was ostensible to live in the lodge-keepers cottage, that is thought to cost about �800 a month to rent, but that she has nonetheless to see her there.

The lodge is yards afar from the home of Lynn Elson, a close personal crony of Mrs Dorries who was paid �34,000 in open supports for PR services that the MP pronounced she provided.

Accounts filed by Ms Elson in Aug last year show that her company, Marketing Management (Midlands) Ltd, that is formed in her house, had net resources of �4,527.

The find of the lodge brings to an finish a long-running poser surrounding the place of the MPs "main home" for parliamentary losses purposes.

She primarily indicated to The Dailythat it was her mothers chateau in Lytham St Annes, Lancs, prior to revelation readers of her internet blog she had a skill in the Cotswolds. She has given declined to explain the place multiform times.

Mrs Dorries was radically privileged by Sir Thomas Leggs review of all losses claims given 2004/05. She was told to compensate off �1,314.37 for 3 inadvertently repetitious bills.

A orator for Mrs Dorries pronounced yesterday that the MPs main home "is so directed towards since it is her main home." He declined to criticism on either she had a grave rent agreement for the property.

"I can endorse for the deterrence of disbelief that, over the march of a year, she spends the infancy of her nights at her directed towards "main home"," he said.

It was disclosed yesterday that Stephen Rhodes, a former DJ station for Parliament in Luton South opposite Esther Rantzen, the TV host and anti-sleaze candidate, is a close crony of Mrs Dorries.

Mrs Dorries, who described The Daily Telegraphs MPs losses review as a "McCarthyite witch-hunt", has clashed publicly with Miss Rantzen, who has betrothed to purify up Parliament.

Mr Rhodes and Mrs Dorries denied being in a relationship. Mr Rhodes pronounced yesterday in reply to a question from his internal journal about their impasse "Friendship, relationship, whatever".