SNP submits Westminster accounts on deadline to avoid losing £1m in public funding

The SNP has finally submitted accounts for its Westminster group of MPs after it risked losing £1m in funding.

Opposition parties in the House of Commons are entitled to Short money to help pay for staff and research.

But the SNP was left scrambling to meet a May 31 deadline after its long-serving auditors quit in October last year - a fact many senior party members only learned months later.