Another Tory MP "caught in staffing row"

The Mail on Sunday reports:

A second Tory MP was dragged into the row over Commons staff last night – for employing his lover's daughter when she was still a sixth-form pupil.
Ashleigh Sharp has been Bob Spink's parliamentary assistant since 2006, when she was just 17 and enrolled at a sixth-form college in Benfleet, Essex.
Miss Sharp, the daughter of Mr Spink's former partner, Gail Boland, is now paid more than £5,000 a year by the MP – despite also being a student at Buckingham University.

Mr Spink's taxpayer-funded payroll also includes his ex-wife, Janet, whom he divorced in 2002 and who now carries out her duties from Dorset, and his daughter, Charlotte.
The Mail on Sunday has established that Miss Sharp received £1,218 from the Commons authorities in January 2006, when she was 17 years and four months old, a further £936 in March that year and then £750 in July.
Miss Sharp was appointed while Mr Spink's relationship with Ms Boland, a Tory councillor, was ongoing, but the pair have now split up.
Last night, Miss Sharp confirmed she had worked two-and-a-half days a week in Mr Spink's Commons office when she was 17, adding: "At the moment, I'm doing weekends, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, so that's five days a week – a working week."