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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Scottish parliament to suspend ex-minister who claimed £11,000 roaming bill on expenses

Michael Matheson sitting in Holyrood with a pensive expression
Matheson quit as health secretary in February after admitting his sons had used his work iPad to watch football while on holiday. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Michael Matheson, Scotland’s former health secretary, is expected to lose his salary for 54 days and be suspended as an MSP after wrongly claiming £11,000 in expenses for streaming football matches on holiday.

Holyrood’s standards committee said the sanctions – the most serious ever imposed on an MSP – were necessary because Matheson had breached a number of rules on expenses and parliamentary conduct.

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