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Lord Alli lent £62,000 to bail out peer in expenses scandal

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Lord Alli gave a 62,000 loan to Baroness Uddin more than a decade ago to help her repay the taxpayer.

She was found to have wrongly claimed 125,000 in expenses in October 2010 .

Baroness was suspended from the upper house for about 18 months and ordered to repay.

Alli is being investigated by the House of Lords standards watchdog for allegedly failing to register interests in a separate matter.

The decision not to prosecute Uddin relied on a ruling by the Lords clerk allowing peers to nominate their primary home as one they visited at least once a month: the CPS was unable to find conclusive evidence she had spent less time there. Advertisement Uddin was approached for comment on whether she had repaid the loan to Alli ..

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