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Disgraced MP earns £250 an hour for advice

Strategy: Andrew Mackay was paid £1,000 for four hours’ work advising a social enterprise firm
12 April 2012

DISGRACED Tory MP Andrew MacKay has been paid £250 an hour as a consultant on top of his work as an MP.

The Bracknell MP, who was forced to stand down following a scandal over his expenses, has received £1,000 a month for four hours' work giving strategic advice to social enterprise company Slivers of Time.

Mr MacKay and his MP wife Julie Kirkbride have been forced to repay more than £60,000 of taxpayers' money wrongly claimed in second home allowance. They owned two properties, in London and Ms Kirkbride's Bromsgrove constituency, with each claiming one as their taxpayer-funded second home.

Mr MacKay has declared the work in the Register of Members' Interests and he is breaking no rules. He is due to join PR and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller after the election as an adviser.

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