The ex-PM is getting taxpayer-funded advice during a probe into whether he misled MPs over the scandal.
Official documents show the contract began last August, when Mr Johnson was still in Downing Street, with an original value of £129,700.
The top civil servant at the Cabinet Office, the department that signed off the spending, has not ruled out that the final cost could be higher."We need to defer to the work of the committee itself and it will determine the conduct, how long it goes on for and so on." In September, a legal opinion produced under the contract criticised the committee's approach, after it decided it would not have to prove he deliberately misled MPs to show he committed this offence.
It also criticised the publication of the document, saying it was "highly irregular" for inquiry evidence to be published by the government itself in advance of it being considered by MPs.earlier this month, Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden said the document was published due to the "exceptional circumstances" of the probe.On several occasions after the Partygate scandal emerged in late 2021, Mr Johnson told the Commons that pandemic rules had been followed.
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