MP Says Sorry For Playing Candy Crush In Meeting

8 December 2014, 17:14 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

An East Midlands MP has admitted playing Candy Crush while in a parliamentary meeting.

Nigel Mills, MP for Amber Valley, was meant to be paying attention to a committee discussion on pensions but instead spent some of the 2-and-a-half hours playing the game on his Ipad.

He says its was a very long meeting and he 'probably had a game or two.'

'I shall try not to do it in the future.'

Mr Mills told the Sun:

'It was a long meeting on pension reforms, which is an important issue that I take very seriously.

'There was a bit of the meeting that I wasn't focusing on and I probably had a game or two.

'I shouldn't do it but if you check the meeting I would say I was fully engaged in asking questions that I thought were particularly important in how we get the pensions issue right. I shall try not to do it in the future.'

Candy Crush Saga is a free to download mobile game but users pay extra for more moves to improve their score.

Mr Mills has now apologised and said it won't happen again.