Lord Hanningfield, 70, faces six charges of false accounting between March 2006 and May 2009.
He is accused of claiming overnight allowances for London accommodation when records allegedly show he was driven
home to Chelmsford, Essex.
The former leader of Essex County Council will appear before Chelmsford Crown Court under his name Paul White.
Lord Hanningfield was charged in February last year.
He was suspended from the Parliamentary Conservative Party and stood down as a frontbench business spokesman
in the House of Lords and as leader of Essex County Council.
He said at the time that the accommodation claims had been made in good faith.
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