‘Rishi Sunak inadvertently breached MP code of conduct’: Parliament standards watchdog

LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has “failed” to correctly declare his wife’s share-holding in a firm which was set to benefit from a new policy announced in the budget, as per Parliament’s standards watchdog.

In April, Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg initiated a probe into the “breach” of transparency rules by Prime Minister Sunak following concerns that the latter failed to declare that his wife Akshata Murty held shares in one of six childminding agencies selected by the Government to provide its new members with an enhanced financial incentive, The Independent reported.

Greenberg had sought comments from Sunak, who said he had received advice from three independ-ent advisers on the matter and had been told that his wife’s shareholding did not meet the test of rele-vance to require publication on the List of Minister’s interests. Concluding that the breach arose out of the Prime Minister’s “confusion” around the rules on declaration, Greenberg decided to close the inquiry without the need for further action. IANS

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