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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Tory MPs paid £100,000 of public funds to party’s in-house web designers

Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Sajid Javid and Gillian Keegan.
Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Sajid Javid and Gillian Keegan. Photograph: Various

More than 120 Conservative MPs, including Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Sajid Javid and Gillian Keegan, paid £100,000 of taxpayers’ money to the Conservatives’ in-house web design services, it can be revealed.

The MPs used the Bluetree website service to design their websites. When billed by Bluetree, they would pay for the sites then claim back the costs from the public purse via expenses, prompting a complaint to parliament’s expenses watchdog about the practice.

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