CASH-FOR-QUESTIONS Definition & Meaning

cash-for-questions

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of, involved in, or relating to a scandal in which some MPs were accused of accepting bribes to ask particular questions in Parliament

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He made it into Parliament in 2014, in a by-election in Newark, Nottinghamshire, prompted by a cash-for-questions scandal.

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The so-called "cash-for-questions" scandal ended the careers of four politicians, including one minister.

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Sir John's own Conservative government in the 1990s was brought down in part due to allegations of sleaze and the cash-for-questions scandal where MPs were offered money in exchange for asking parliamentary questions.

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He contested the by-election in Newark, Nottinghamshire, in 2014, prompted by the resignation of Conservative Patrick Mercer over a cash-for-questions scandal.

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The Guardian sparked the cash-for-questions affair in 1994 when it alleged that then-MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith had been paid to ask questions on behalf of Mohamed Al-Fayed.

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