<p>The trio -- Lord Swaraj Paul, Lord Amir Bhatia and Bangladeshi-born Baroness Uddin -- are expected to be officially recommended for censure in a statement by the House of Lords authorities, The Sunday Telegraph reported. <br /><br />Paul, a major Labour party donor, has been recommended for a suspension of between four and six months and has agreed to pay back 40,000 pounds. <br /><br />Bhatia, who sits as a cross-bencher but has also donated money to Labour, faces a ban of between six and 12 months and is to voluntarily repay 27,000 pounds. <br /><br />Uddin, a Labour peer and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the upper house, is set to be suspended from the Lords for between a year and 18 months, and has agreed to pay back 125,000 pounds in wrongly claimed expenses. <br /><br />All three were investigated by the sub-committee on Lords' interests, a powerful body in the upper house chaired by Baroness Manningham-Buller. Paul and Uddin were referred to the committee after criminal investigations into their cases were dropped. <br /><br />The investigation followed a series of complaints and questions over alleged abuses of the expenses system in the House of Lords, the report said. <br /><br />Paul, an Indian-born steel tycoon who has donated more than 400,000 pounds to Labour and is close to Gordon Brown, is understood to have already repaid about 38,000 pounds. <br /><br />He admitted that he never spent a single night at an Oxfordshire flat that he registered as his main home while claiming money in overnight expenses for a London property. <br />Bhatia, another millionaire, has a 1.5 million pounds home in southwest London but in 2007 he "flipped" the designation of his main home to a two-bedroom flat in Surrey county, which used to be lived in by his brother, the paper said. <br /><br />A House spokesman said Saturday night he could not comment on the latest revelations about the trio. <br /><br />Last year, two Labour peers -- Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Truscott -- were suspended from the House of Lords for six months for misconduct, the first such action since the 17th century. They were found by a Lords committee to be willing to change laws in exchange for cash.</p>
<p>The trio -- Lord Swaraj Paul, Lord Amir Bhatia and Bangladeshi-born Baroness Uddin -- are expected to be officially recommended for censure in a statement by the House of Lords authorities, The Sunday Telegraph reported. <br /><br />Paul, a major Labour party donor, has been recommended for a suspension of between four and six months and has agreed to pay back 40,000 pounds. <br /><br />Bhatia, who sits as a cross-bencher but has also donated money to Labour, faces a ban of between six and 12 months and is to voluntarily repay 27,000 pounds. <br /><br />Uddin, a Labour peer and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to the upper house, is set to be suspended from the Lords for between a year and 18 months, and has agreed to pay back 125,000 pounds in wrongly claimed expenses. <br /><br />All three were investigated by the sub-committee on Lords' interests, a powerful body in the upper house chaired by Baroness Manningham-Buller. Paul and Uddin were referred to the committee after criminal investigations into their cases were dropped. <br /><br />The investigation followed a series of complaints and questions over alleged abuses of the expenses system in the House of Lords, the report said. <br /><br />Paul, an Indian-born steel tycoon who has donated more than 400,000 pounds to Labour and is close to Gordon Brown, is understood to have already repaid about 38,000 pounds. <br /><br />He admitted that he never spent a single night at an Oxfordshire flat that he registered as his main home while claiming money in overnight expenses for a London property. <br />Bhatia, another millionaire, has a 1.5 million pounds home in southwest London but in 2007 he "flipped" the designation of his main home to a two-bedroom flat in Surrey county, which used to be lived in by his brother, the paper said. <br /><br />A House spokesman said Saturday night he could not comment on the latest revelations about the trio. <br /><br />Last year, two Labour peers -- Lord Taylor of Blackburn and Lord Truscott -- were suspended from the House of Lords for six months for misconduct, the first such action since the 17th century. They were found by a Lords committee to be willing to change laws in exchange for cash.</p>