Disgraced ex-MP will get to maintain work laptop computer for large low cost after being booted out
A disgraced former MP bought to maintain her taxpayer funded laptop computer for a knockdown value after being booted out of workplace. Margaret Ferrier, an ex-SNP MP, misplaced her seat in a recall vote after admitting to breaking Covid guidelines.
Newly printed bills knowledge reveals Ms Ferrier bought her work laptop computer to maintain after leaving workplace for simply £320 – an £898 low cost on the £1218 the taxpayer paid for it in 2020. The revelation comes within the newest launch of MPs bills knowledge, printed by watchdog IPSA this week.
It additionally reveals Tory MP Henry Smith claimed £300 in bills to pay for his journey to talk at a convention about flags. Mr Smith, whose Twitter bio options an emoji of a Union Flag, gave a speech on the Flag Institute’s semi-annual convention in his position because the chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Flags and Heraldry.
Mr Smith mentioned: “I participated at the Flag Institute conference in Edinburgh last November in my capacity as Chair of the Flags & Heraldry All Party Parliamentary Group.”
And fellow Tory MP Mark Jenkinson charged taxpayers £56.98 for a brand new pair of wellies. The Workington MP and junior minister mentioned he’d purchased the waders for a go to to the Rivers Trust.
The Plumbland waste water therapy website in Mr Jenkinson’s constituency had extra sewage overflow final 12 months than another website in England. In whole sewage was discharged at Plumbland for six,896 hours – or 287 days – final 12 months, contributing to the 744,793 hours that sewage spilled from storm overflows throughout the North of England.
Mr Jenkinson mentioned: “I’m sure that even the extent of your investigative journalism would have revealed that I’m never afraid of rolling my sleeves up and getting stuck in on behalf of my constituents. Thank you for highlighting it.”
He ended his response with a ‘excessive 5’ emoji. All the bills claimed have been throughout the guidelines laid out by watchdog IPSA and declared correctly.
