Senior Tory MP charges taxpayers for 30 bacon butties at posh Dorset brewery

A SENIOR Tory MP slapped taxpayers with the bill for 30 bacon butties at a posh brewery.

Select committee chair Simon Hoare claimed £142 on expenses for a selection of bacon and sausage baps in his North Dorset constituency.

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An additional £75 was spent on tea and coffee at the charming Hall and Woodhouse Brewery in May last year.

Mr Hoare didn’t eat any of the butties in question, as MPs aren’t allowed to charge taxpayers for their own meals.

And he told The Sun the bacon was bought for a “successful” local business engagement breakfast.

The event started at 8am and was over 2.5 hours later.

The early timing was to “maximise attendance”.

Mr Hoare said: “This was for a local business engagement breakfast post-Covid.

“The breakfast resulted in important casework.

“It also led local businesses to continue their own group meetings.”

A Labour source said: “As we’ve learnt over the past year, the Conservatives have serious problems when it comes to porkies, and Rishi Sunak’s approach to the cost-of-living crisis has been ham-fisted at best.

“Taxpayers will be wondering why they are stumping up this cash.”

Last month a dossier of Whitehall waste revealed Treasury mandarins billed taxpayers £25,000 to take classes at a world-renowned acting school.

Public cash was given to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for “communication and presentation” workshops for 62 civil servants. 

Meanwhile, Foreign Office staff spent £2,000 on wellbeing courses at the UK Hypnosis Academy in January 2021.

And later that year the Transport Department spent £5,388 for 29 officials to have training by Service Animals, which claims to use animal behaviours to boost productivity.

Labour, which compiled the analysis, also blasted diplomats frittering £344,803 on “restaurants and bars” in one year.

Almost £2,000 of taxpayer cash was spent on a “Hot pink photo booth” for a Washington embassy screening of Bond movie No Time To Die. 

The cache highlights the use of luxury hotels, such as the £5,116 spent by officials on stays at the five-star Meruorah Komodo and Mulia Resort in Indonesia over two trips last year.