Douglas Lumsden has been branded 'childish' amid speculation AI was used to generate some of the questions.
A Tory MSP cost the taxpayer over £100,000 after tabling almost one thousand “spurious” parliamentary questions. Douglas Lumsden was accused of a “flagrant abuse” of public resources after submitting queries on flagpoles, light bulbs and jars of honey in the Holyrood shop, according to the Sunday Times.
Lumsden, MSP for North of East Scotland, submitted 987 written questions to officials in January, more than half of the total asked by all 129 MSPs. “This sum of money could have paid the wages of two nurses in our NHS for an entire year. Instead the Tories are happy to waste taxpayers’ cash, the paid time of hard-pressed officials and other MSPs who are trying to get on with the job of representing their constituents.”
Other questions submitted by the MSP, who backed Liz Truss to be Tory leader, focused on deckchairs and the cost of electric hand dryers on the parliamentary estate.
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