BRECON and Radnorshire MP, Chris Davies, is waiting to find out if the Metropolitan Police (Met) will investigate him for expense fraud.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, IPSA, have passed on the complaints to the Met's Special Enquiry Team that Mr Davies had fabricated expense claims back in 2016 for furniture and photographs at his constituency office.

Tory MP Mr Davies who claims this is an honest mistake, says he has re-paid £700 and that the problem is a technical breach due to a lack of experience with the IPSA Code.

The allegations were made in March and passed them onto IPSA who regulate MP's costs and expenses.

Mr Davies who was first elected in 2015 created two invoices in a claim for expenses which he should have entered online.

Mr Davies, said: “In 2015, for my constituency office I bought pictures from a local photographer for £700.

"I claimed this as an expense and it was a legitimate expense.

"Whilst the expense was legitimate, by trying to split the payment between two budgets, I created a technical breach of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority’s Code.

"This has been in the public domain for over two years.

"In March it came to my attention that I may have misunderstood the code, I then referred myself to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to clarify.

"This was an honest mistake caused by my inexperience of the code.

"I did not and never intended to claim expenses to which I was not entitled.

"I apologise for this mistake and I have personally paid the £700 for the picture.

The Met Police, said: "The compliance officer for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) made a referral to us on Wednesday, April 4, in relation to an allegation of fraudulent expense claim.

"The matter is currently subject to an assessment by officers from the Met's Special Enquiry Team."

IPSA, said: "We were made aware of this issue at the end of March 2018 and we have taken appropriate action?, including the recovery of funds."

In October 2017, Mr Davies was told that he must pay over £5,000 for a breaching the Parliamentary Code of Conduct during the general election campaign last year.

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