Well today news has come of the final cost to the taxpayer in this debacle. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68790427

£34,000!!

£15,000 for the amount paid out and £19,000 in legal fees. 

Now more than ever we really need to get this petition to the 10,000 or more signatures so that it will be seen in parliament and hopefully force Mrs Donelan to pay back the money. 

This simply cannot be allowed to go away unnoticed. If this is let go then this sets a very dangerous precedent as to what public money can be used for. 

It may already be that our money has been used for more cases like this in the past and I highly doubt we'll ever know if that is the case or not but should this one go unchallenged then I have no doubt this will happen time and time again. 

This is not fair or just and we have to act now to stop this. 

Many thanks for all your help so far. Please let's push this as far as we can now though.