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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

Government asks MP watchdog to review expenses rules after £900 ‘pet rent’ claim

Ministers will ask a Parliamentary watchdog to review some expenses claims after a Labour MP was able to claim £900 from the taxpayer in “pet rent”.

Security minister Dan Jarvis insisted his colleague Taiwo Owatemi, a Government whip and the MP for Coventry North West, followed the rules when she made the expenses claim in August last year.

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