A LABOUR MP received £240 an hour from taxpayers’ money to teach NHS workers leadership.

Key Jeremy Corbyn ally Naz Shah bagged almost £4,800 for the workshops.

The fees of the MP, suspended by Labour in an anti-Semitism row two years ago, were listed in Parliament’s register of members’ financial interests.

They include £1,200 for two sessions on leadership in February last year. It was for five hours’ work including preparation, a £240 hourly rate plus travel and accommodation costs. Ms Shah got £600 for two and a half hours weeks later and £600 last November.

She listed the payments under Health Education England and the NHS Leadership Academy.

Her payments this year included four sessions totalling £2,400. Ms Shah, who earns £77,379 as an MP, gave the workshops before becoming shadow equalities minister. A spokesperson for her said she received “normal rates”. In 2017 she accused the Governmenmt of not “fully funding” the NHS.

Taxpayers’ Alliance’s Ben Ramanauskas said: “She should have offered her services pro-bono rather than leeching off hard-working taxpayers. It’s disappointing health budget money was taken for ‘leadership training’.”

Health minister Steve Barclay last night said: "This is outrageous - while this Conservative government is putting billions into the NHS,
the hard left just seem to want to rip it off.

“Health bosses should be prioritising frontline services and patient care, not giving a disgraced Labour MP thousands of pounds of taxpayers money for leadership tips."