Rt Hon the Baroness HaymanHouse of LordsLondonSW1A 0PW7th September, 2009Dear Baroness Hayman,

Regarding Your Claims £200,000 over the past 8 years

It seems inappropriate to us that the £200,000 that you have received in allowancesover the past eight years by designating your home in Norfolk as your main address asyour main home as well as having a home in London and the £108,000a year salaryyou receive as the Lord speaker does not fit with your role of reforming the House of Lords expenses system.Earlier this summer, the House Committee, which is chaired byyourself, requested that the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) conduct a review of financial support for peers.The SSRB has already identified as an area of concern peers’ nomination of homes outside London as their main address.You were quoted in the Times in an email you had written saying that you had been “along-standing advocate of a root-and-branch external review of the financial supportsystems available for members of the House of Lords”.Could you explain to us how you justified claiming to the House Authorities that you had a home in Norfolk over the pasteight years.If not, when do you propose to repay the £200,000 that you have falselyclaimed from taxpayers on the basis of the misrepresentation of your actualcircumstances?If we do not receive a satisfactory reply from you it is our intention to pursue this matterwith the House authorities.Thank you for your time and cooperation in advance and we would appreciate anacknowledgement of this letter by email or telephone.Yours sincerely,