Number of people waiting for initial decision on asylum application at end of June 2023 up 44% on last year, according to Home Office figures
Good morning.has apologised for inadvertently failing to declare an interest to the Commons liasion committee. As breaches of the code of conduct for MPs go, this is at the most minor end of the scale. But it is still embarrassing for someone who promised “integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level” on the day he became prime minister. Sunak was trying to differentiate himself from his predecessor-but-one, Boris Johnson, who was notably deficient on all three measures.
The complaint was triggered by the fact that Koru Kids, a childcare firm part owned by Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, is set to benefit from a funding measure in the budget. Sunak wasat the Commons liasion committee and, when she asked if the PM had anything to declare,wrote to the commissioner to ask if this was a breach of the Commons rule saying MPs must declare relevant interests in any parliamentary proceedings, including committee hearings.
After a lengthy investigation, Greenberg accepted that at the time of the hearing Sunak may not have been aware of his wife’s shareholding in Koru Kids. But he said Sunak had a duty to correct the record when he was fully aware of it, and he said that a subsequent letter to the committee saying that his interest had been “rightly declared to the Cabinet Office” did not go far enough.
Greenberg says that Sunak was “confused” because he had muddled the obligation to register interests with the obligation to declare interests publicly .I was satisfied that Mr Sunak had confused the concept of registration with the concept of declaration of interests under paragraph 6 of the Code and Chapter 2 of the Guide to the Rules relating to the Conduct of Members.
Also today, we have asylum and immigration figures coming out from the Home Office, and Jeremy Corbyn, the formerIt is also GCSE results day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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