Meanings
- UKuncountablegovernmentThe bribing of Members of Parliament to ask parliamentary questions on behalf of another.
[title:] Other Tories ‘would take cash for questions’
1994 July 11, Stephen Bates, “Other Tories 'would take cash for questions'”, in The Guardian, page 123 more examples
LABOUR served notice last night that it will seek to widen a Commons inquiry into the "cash-for-questions" controversy to cover the whole issue of whether MPs can hold lucrative consultancies to lobby at Westminster for private companies.
1994 July 13, George Jones, “Labour seeks inquiry into MPs' lobby cash”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 1A Labour spokesperson said: “Cash for questions was a hallmark of Tory sleaze in the 1990s, and three decades on the same issue has raised its head again. ¶ “George Freeman has referred himself for investigation so now Kemi Badenoch must suspend him from the Tory whip.”
2025 June 29, Helen Corbett, “Tory MP refers himself to watchdog over ‘cash for questions’ row”, in The IndependentAs Westminster correspondent, Hencke was instrumental in exposing the cash-for-questions scandal that forced the resignations of two Conservative ministers, and the scoop that led to Peter Mandelson’s first resignation from government.
2026 June 27, Kevin Rawlinson, “David Hencke, Guardian journalist who exposed cash-for-questions scandal, dies aged 79”, in The Guardian
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