Who funded MP’s jolly?

I have just read online that my MP Gavin Newlands has been in Catalonia with two other SNP MPs, visiting pro-Catalonian independence prisoners in prison.

Who is paying for this trip? Is the tax payer paying for Mr Newlands to visit Barcelona in what is clearly a party-political jolly?

How much exactly is the trip costing the Renfrewshire tax payer?

Who is paying for his meals, drinks, not to mention flights and hotels?

Can I please ask, is this a good use of a Member of Parliament’s time?

Would this time not be better spent in the constituency?

How exactly is this trip benefiting the people of Renfrewshire?

If the tax payer is paying for this, I am utterly disgusted.

How can he justify to his constituents in Renfrewshire using tax payer’s money to visit Barcelona? James Renwick Erskine

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