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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Tory chair of health committee investigated over NHS lobbying claims

Steve Brine
Steve Brine is a former health minister. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

The Conservative MP who chairs the Commons health and social care committee is under investigation over allegations that he lobbied the NHS and ministers on behalf of a recruitment firm that employed him.

Steve Brine, a former health minister, was put under investigation by parliament’s standards commissioner over “paid advocacy and declaration of an interest”.

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