A senior SNP MSP has been forced to pay back nearly £3500 in expenses after he sent a dodgy "annual report" to constituents on the eve of the Holyrood election campaign.
Gil Paterson, who was convener of Holyrood’s standards committee at the time of the row, was judged to have breached the Parliament’s allowances guidance.
Up until May, Paterson was a list member for the West of Scotland. He then won the Clydebank and Milngavie seat after defeating Labour’s Des McNulty by around 700 votes.
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