I did not do so as I was concerned that what was being asked of me was not within Parliamentary rules. 'After this meeting, I was asked to forward my CV and some other personal details. 'I met with two individuals claiming to represent the company to find out what this role entailed. In a statement, he told Sky News: 'Last month I was approached by a purported company offering me an expert advisory role. Mr Benton ultimately did not accept any financial payment arising from the meeting and there is no suggestion he broke any parliamentary rules as a result.

This is in spite of strict rules that ban MPs from carrying out paid lobbying or advising how to influence parliament in exchange for pay, or the expectation of pay. Mr Benton responded and suggested he would be happy to be paid between two and four thousand pounds a month to help the fake company. The newspaper contacted a number of MPs offering paid work as an expert adviser. Scott Benton, the MP for Blackpool South, met undercover reporters posing as employees of TAHR Partners, a fake company lobbying to influence government policy, at a central London hotel in mid-March. A Conservative MP has been caught indicating that he would be willing to break parliamentary lobbying rules for money in an undercover sting operation by the Times.

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