Figures show 155 MPs employed relatives in lucrative tax-funded jobs last year costing £327,000. Nadine Dorries’s daughters Philippa and Jennifer were employed. Philippa’s salary was boosted to the £40,000-£44,999 pay band.

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The Tory MP is one of 155 MPs, including five ministers, who employed family members last year at a total cost of up to £327,000, all of it funded from the public purse.

Dorries, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, boosted the salary of her daughter Philippa, 28, into the £40,000-£44,999 pay band from the £30,400 she was earning as a constituency caseworker. The MP, and one time I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here contestant, paid her daughter Jennifer, 26, up to £35,000 to work as a ‘senior secretary’.

Leaping on the tax-funded gravy train, MPs claimed a record £98million in allowances last year, according to figures from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, up from £95.4million in 2009.

Cabinet minister Michael Moore, health minister Dan Poulter and foreign minister Alistair Burt were among other MPs revealed to have employed relatives in their parliamentary or constituency offices.

Ms Dorries, who repaid £3,000 in travel expenses last year after accepting that the claims were ‘wrongfully made and should not have been allowed’, wrote on Twitter: ‘I do employ my daughter. I always have always will.

She has also said that employing her daughter Jennifer as a caseworker provided ‘value for money’ as she worked weekends and could be relied on. Philippa Dorries left her mother’s office last year and Jennifer joined soon afterwards, meaning they did not work for the 56-year-old MP at the same time.

Mutual back-slapping goes on; she announced yesterday that she has signed a six-figure deal to write three books about her upbringing to on a Liverpool housing estate. Yet, professional writers like Liverpool born Michael Walsh are ignored by the palace publishing houses.

Philippa was employed by her mother in 2012 while she was studying for a degree at BPP Law School in London. In June it was also revealed that she was dating Conservative MP Chris Kelly, the 34-year-old son of multi-millionaire owner of the lorry firm Keltruck.

Ipsa figures showed that Lib Dem Scotland Secretary Michael Moore, who earns £134,565 a year, paid his wife Alison between £15,000 and £19,000 in the 12 months to April, up from £14,999 the previous year. Dan Poulter put his mother Carol’s salary up to £39,999 from the £30,000-£34,999 pay band, employing her as his secretary.

Conservative MPs Christopher Chope and Peter Bone paid their wives the highest amount, between £45,000 and £49,999 a year. Source