SF to return excess rent allowance to British Exchequer

Sinn Féin is returning a £3,000 (€3,211.77) overpayment of rent on a London property used by the North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness following the investigation into MPs’ expenses by Thomas Legg, the party said today.

It said Legg had identified “an error made by the House of Commons fees office in relation to the overpayment of two months’ rent for Martin McGuinness’s rental property in London in 2006”.