Tory Paid Student Son Pounds 12,000 in Public Cash

Evening Standard - London › January 28, 2008

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SENIOR Tory MP Derek Conway faced suspension from the Commons today for paying his son Pounds 12,000 a year from public funds while he was at university.

The MP may even be investigated by police after the all-party Commons standards and privileges committee found the payments - which also included bonuses of up to Pounds 5,000 to son Freddie - may have been a "serious diversion of public funds".

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Tory Paid Student Son Pounds 12,000 in Public Cash

Freddie, who was at Newcastle University, could not recollect...

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