Former Shrewsbury MP Derek Conway is given a parliamentary pass
Former Shropshire MP Derek Conway has been handed a coveted pass granting him access to Westminster's heavily subsidised bars and restaurants.
The former MP, who represented Shrewsbury & Atcham from 1983 to 1997, later went on to be Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup.
But he had the Conservative whip withdrawn and then stepped down after being heavily censured for putting his son on the public payroll without apparently having any duties.
Mr Conway is among 360 former members to be given access to the parliamentary estate according to a list which was published under the Freedom of Information Act.
Others on the list include the disgraced former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne, who was jailed for eight months for perverting the course of justice after trying to swap speeding points with his ex-wife, ex-Tory minister Jonathan Aitken, who was jailed in 1999 for perjury and perverting the course of justice, and Ben Chapman, who declined to stand again in Wirral South after it emerged he had overclaimed on his mortgage by £15,000 – albeit with the permission of the House authorities.
