Pressure on Matheson to resign over Holyrood rule breaches

Scotland's disgraced former health secretary Michael Matheson is under pressure to quit as an MSP after an internal Holyrood investigation found he had broken parliamentary expenses rules when he claimed for an £11,000 ipad data bill. The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body has ruled he breached the MSP's Code of Conduct and there had been "improper use" of the expenses system.It has now asked Holyrood's Standards Committee to rule on any sanctions.

"While the costs to the public purse had been addressed, the SPCB agreed that the Nolan Principles of Standards in Public Life, embedded in the scheme and underpinning the appropriate use of parliamentary resources, represented the high standard by which all members must abide and in which the SPCB considered the public must continue to have confidence.

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