Basingstoke's MP has voted against a motion to form a parliamentary inquiry into the lobbying of government ministers.

Maria Miller voted against the Labour motion on Wednesday that would have seen a new select committee of MPs set up to examine the effectiveness of legislation to prevent inappropriate lobbying.

She said she felt that "yet another committee" would not "be of value".

It comes after controversy surrounding former Prime Minister David Cameron's lobbying of the government on behalf of collapsed financial firm Greensill Capital.

Mrs Miller served in Mr Cameron's cabinet for four years, including as Culture secretary.

Mr Cameron sent text messages to the Chancellor and reportedly took Health Secretary Matt Hancock for a “private drink” with his employer Lex Greensill.

The former PM has since admitted that he should have communicated with the Government “through only the most formal of channels”.

The debate on Wednesday failed by 357 votes to 262.

Speaking to The Gazette, Mrs Miller said: "The Government has already announced that there will be an independent review into the Development and Use of Supply Chain Finance (and associated schemes) related to Greensill Capital in Government.

"The review will have full access to all the relevant documents and decision-makers to fully satisfy public questions around lobbying.

"Additionally, Committee on Standards in Public Life already scrutinises lobbying concerns around the conduct of former officials and is made up of MPs and independent members and I do not feel that establishing yet another committee to scrutinise the same concerns would be of value and for these reasons I will be abstaining."

However, Parliamentary records show that she in fact voted against the Opposition Day motion.

Mrs Miller continued: "Specifically on Greensill’s approval for access to coronavirus support loans, there was no ministerial involvement in Greensill’s request for access to the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, which was handled independently by the British Business. And both Greensill’s request for additional support were turned down by Treasury officials."

Labour has claimed that the separate independent review established by Boris Johnson, which will be led by lawyer Nigel Boardman, will be a “Conservative cover up”.

Opposition day motions are not usually binding on the Government, but because it was calling for Parliament rather than ministers to establish an inquiry, it would have lead to the creation of the committee.