BOSTON MP Mark Simmonds has apologised for failing to make clear an interest when speaking in favour of the NHS shake-up.

The MPs' register of interest shows he is paid £50,000 a year as a strategic adviser to Circle Healthcare.

In a statement during a Point of Order in the House of Commons, Mr Simmonds told fellow MPs he wanted to apologise for "inadvertently" failing to declare his interest.

Although he had correctly declared his interest in the register of interests, he did not mention it – as MPs should – when speaking in the two debates on the Health and Social Care Bill last year.