WESTMINSTER MPs have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer cash on firms with current or past party links, The Sunday National can reveal.
An analysis of data from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) – the body responsible for regulating MPs’ staffing and business costs – shows that more than a dozen companies run by former or current councillors, party staffers, parliamentary aides or political candidates have received nearly £488,781 through MPs’ expense budgets since the General Election.
