Michael Matheson took the parliamentary iPad with him on a week-long visit to Morocco with his family around Christmas 2022. His roaming charges for the iPad - not phone calls - totalled nearly £11,000.
MSPs have voted to suspend Scotland's former health secretary from Holyrood for 27 sitting days and to strip him of his salary for 54 days over his £11,000 iPad data roaming bill. A majority of MSPs backed the proposed sanction against Michael Matheson recommended by the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee in a vote at Holyrood on Wednesday. It comes after the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body concluded in March that he had breached the MSP code of conduct.
Officials at Holyrood challenged the invoice over the scale of the data fees and the late warning over the rising cost, but previous provider EE declined to waive it. Mr Matheson agreed to pay £3,000 towards the cost from his expenses budget. As the data use was reportedly for parliamentary business, the Scottish parliament agreed to pay the rest. Following a public outcry, Mr Matheson agreed to pay the money back to the Scottish parliament.
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