I SEE that Mike Ashley, the owner of Sports Direct, is in trouble with the House of Commons Business, Skills and Innovation Committee for refusing to answer its questions.

This committee of MPs should look first at its own members, because I have being trying to get my MP, Rishi Sunak, to answer my questions.

Mark Harper, Conservative chief whip, tells me that all MPs are entitled to make their own rules and they do not have to answer queries from their constituents, and if I do not like this I can vote for someone else at the election. I find it surprising that MPs have rules for their behaviour in the Commons and rules in claiming expenses but no rules in their dealings with the electorate.

The questions I have put to my MP have been about children being abused in secure homes, unprofessional practices by our immigration services, air pollution in the UK, the drink drive level, Turkey’s problems with refugees etc, but Mr Sunak does not reply.

The bottom line is that if MPs can say Mr Ashley is in contempt of parliament because he will not answer their questions then Mr Sunak must surely also be in contempt of parliament for not answering my questions.

Brian Tyldesley, Middleham