A Tory paid £2,000 a month by a betting lobbying group is at the centre of an inquiry into allegations that he provided paid parliamentary advice.

Laurence Robertson, the MP for Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, has been paid by the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) since 2020 for ten hours of work a month.

Originally, he registered this second job as a “parliamentary adviser on sport and safer gambling”, and The Times revealed in 2021 that he had used questions in parliament to warn ministers away from tougher gambling laws.

However, last month he changed the role to drop the parliamentary aspect, after rules were introduced in December banning the provision of paid parliamentary advice.

Robertson says he does not provide parliamentary advice to the BGC,