Former health secretary Michael Matheson has been found to have breached the MSPs code of conduct in relation to the near £11,000 bill he racked up on a parliamentary iPad.

Mr Matheson stepped down from his cabinet post last month, citing the ongoing parliamentary investigation as the reason.

Glasgow Times:

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) published its findings on Thursday but said its full report would be released after consideration by Holyrood’s standards committee.

“The SPCB decided that, based on the evidence presented in the Investigation Report and its findings in fact, Mr Matheson had breached sections 7.3 and 7.4 of the code of conduct and thereby upheld the three complaints within the SPCB’s remit,” the body said.

They added: “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.”

The report will be referred to the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee to consider if the former minister should be sanctioned.