Tory MPs paid £100,000 of public funds to party’s in-house web designers
by Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6NQ9X)
Exclusive: Conservatives including Hunt and Truss used Bluetree for websites and claimed costs as expenses
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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