last christmas, scotland s health secretary michael matheson went on a week long holiday to morocco. he brought along his ipad, which was issued by parliament, and while he was there he racked up a data roaming bill of almost £11,000. this is a breakdown of his ee usage, which was released by parliament, and it shows that he used more than six gigabytes of data while on that trip. he assured staff that the ipad was being used for parliamentary business, and of that business the parliament said that they would cover the bill, but that £3,000 should come out of the expenses budget from mr matheson s office. it then transpired that the sim card in the ipad should have been updated a year earlier, and that mr matheson had been made aware of that information by e mail. so, on that basis, he has since agreed to pay the bill in full, but there are still questions about how exactly he managed to use such a huge amount of data. the opposition scottish conservatives have pointed out
the two are not inextricably linked. and that is why you will know, for those of you who have worked with me before, my instinct is always to praise in public, to criticise in private. and if if your officers if your staff respond to that style of working, i genuinely believe we can maximize the work that we do on behalf of the british people. and ultimately, that is my aim. that is my aim. our correspondent mark lobel has been summing up the home secretary s speech. after weeks of debate about protests and policing we were really looking to see if the new home secretary would be drawing a line between himself and suella braverman, sacked, of course, on monday. we got that really in this line, didn t we, to praise in public and to criticise in private. that was no doubt a reference to the fact that many people had looked at suella braverman over the past few weeks as more of a pundit, as some analysts had described her, rather than a politician by putting her thoughts into co