Sayeeda Warsi

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Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at the 2010 Eid reception

Sayeeda Warsi (Baroness Warsi) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.[1]

She was appointed Senior minister of state at the Foreign Office and minister for faith and communities in September 2012.[2] She was previously Minister Without Portfolio in the UK Cabinet appointed in 2010[3] and Chair of the Conservative  Party. She resigned from the Cabinet on 5 August 2014 over the Gaza conflict. [1]


Investigation into expense claims and ministerial code breaches

In June 2012 the House of Lords Standards Commissioner Paul Kernaghan launched a formal investigation into Baroness Warsi's expenses claims. She is facing allegations that she claimed for accommodation expenses while staying at the house of her friend, Tory official Naweed Khan rent-free in 2008. Khan is now her special adviser. At the time, she claimed Lords' subsistence of £165.50 a night.

A separate inquiry was ordered in the same week by Prime Minister David Cameron into whether Warsi breached the ministerial code when a business partner accompanied her on an official visit to Pakistan. [4]

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Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Ministerial appointments: August 2014, Prime Minister's Office, 6 August 2014.
  2. Juliette Jowit, Shiv Malik and Haroon Siddique, Cabinet reshuffle: who has moved so far?, guardian.co.uk, 4 September 2012.
  3. Her Majesty’s Government, Number10.gov.uk, accessed 12 May 2010.
  4. Telegraph reporters, Standards watchdog opens probe into Baroness Warsi's expenses, 06 Jun 2012