Tory MP in benefit fraud claims despite anti-welfare votes
Tory MP Peter Bone has been accused of benefit fraud in a report in The Times newspaper.
The MP for Wellingborough and Rushden was alleged to have hidden assets belonging to his mother-in-law, Dorothy Sweeney, so her local authority, Northamptonshire County Council, would fund her care home costs.
Anyone who has assets of more than £23,250, including property and savings, must pay for their own care.
Police raided Bone's house after a year-long investigation, triggered after they became aware that Sweeney had sold a house shortly before going into a care home.