Suspension for ex-minister who claimed £11,000 roaming bill on expenses

Michael Matheson claimed the bill, incurred while on holiday in Morocco, as a parliamentary expense

Scotland's former health secretary has been suspended as an MSP and docked 54 days' pay for wrongly claiming an 11,000 iPad bill on expenses, after a bitter row at Holyrood.

MSPs voted by a large margin to suspend Michael Matheson for 27 days, as well as having his pay docked, after Scottish National party ministers and backbenchers abstained on the orders of John Swinney, the first minister and SNP leader.