A Conservative MP has pleaded guilty to two charges of making a false expenses claim.
Chris Davies, whose constituency covers Hay-on-Wye on the Herefordshire border, admitted to one charge of providing false or misleading information for allowances claims and one of attempting to do so.
The 51-year-old served as a councillor in Powys before he was elected as MP at the 2015 general election.
Davies appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court today.
The first charge was providing false or misleading information for allowances claims contrary to section 10 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009.
He admitted that in March 2016 he made a claim under the MPs' allowances scheme and provided an invoice that he knew to be "false or misleading".
The second charge was attempting to provide false or misleading information for an allowance claim using an invoice "that he knew to be false or misleading" in April 2016.
Davies' sentence is not yet confirmed.
More to follow.
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