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The '''cash-for-questions affair''' was a political scandal of the 1990s in the [[United Kingdom]].

It began in October 1994 when ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper alleged that [[London]]'s most successful parliamentary lobbyist,<ref name="indy1996">{{cite news |first=Christian |last=Wolmar |authorlink=Christian Wolmar |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/greers-lobby-empire-crashes-1315281.html |title=Greer's lobby empire crashes |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=20 December 1996 |accessdate=12 July 2018}}</ref> [[Ian Greer]] of Ian Greer Associates, had bribed two [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] Members of Parliament to ask [[parliamentary questions]] and perform other tasks on behalf of the Egyptian owner of [[Harrods]] department store, [[Mohamed Al-Fayed]].<ref name=claim>{{cite news|url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,536101,00.html|title=Tory MPs were paid to plant questions says Harrods chief|newspaper=The Guardian|date=20 October 1994|accessdate=8 March 2010|last1=Hencke|first1=David}}</ref>