Harpenden's MP has been named in new investigation exposing coalition’s links to private health.

Four Home Counties MPs, including Harpenden MP Peter Lilley, have been named in the investigation by Unite, which found that 70 coalition MPs with links to private healthcare interests voted to sell-off the NHS.

The new research reveals the coalition MPs and peers who are linked to firms which stood to benefit from the sell-off, but voted for the bill.

The dossier names Peter Lilley (Hitchin and Harpenden) alongside Prime Minister David Cameron (Witney, Oxfordshire), Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North, Buckinghamshire).

Nationally the research also exposes senior Tories including Andrew Lansley, Jo Johnson, Mark Simmonds and Nadhim Zahawi.

Peter Lilley has served as the non-executive director of Idox plc, which sells management software to the NHS, NHS Education for Scotland and the Health Libraries Group.

A previous investigation by Unite revealed that since 2012, £1.5 billion has left the NHS and gone to 15 private companies, with 70 per cent of tendered contracts being awarded to the private sector.

Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary, said "The Government had no mandate to sell-off our NHS, no one voted for it, yet they are doing just that. You have to ask yourself why?

"From lobbying links to investments, and in some cases direct donations, it is clear that many MPs who supported the NHS sell-off had links to the very private healthcare companies which stood to profit.

"Since the vote to sell-off our NHS, over £13 billion pounds of our local services have fallen into private hands. What’s more, this sell-off could be made irreversible by an EU-US trade deal, TTIP, which the government are now cheer-leading.

"It is time to scrap the health and social care act and save our NHS."

The Review has contacted Mr Lilley for a comment on the investigation but he has so failed to respond at the time of this story being published.