Standards & Ethics
Ministerial conduct, lobbying, transparency, CSPL, register of interests, code of conduct
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 111PMQs 2026-04-29
I think the whole country is sick of this man's t [1D [K tone-deaf, pompous moralising. Since the last King's Speech, it has been on [2D [K one disaster after another: cronyism, jobs for friends of co...
PMQs 2026-03-25
Given the potential links with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, I hope that the Government will move faster to proscribe the group as terrorists. Just before President Trump posted about his sup...
PMQs 2026-03-04
May I thank the Prime Minister for his leadership and his cool head on the situation in Iran? The leasehold system is legalised extortion. Last week I met dozens of my constituents who are leaseholder...
PMQs 2026-02-25
I need your help as Prime Minister to deploy powers that can bring greater transparency, fairness, and competition to the commercial energy sector which has been called a 'wild west'. Can you ensure O...
PMQs 2026-02-11
If I have just heard the Prime Minister correctly, he has essentially rolled the same pitch in relation to Matthew Doyle as he did with Peter Mandelson, in saying that they were not clear with him. He...
PMQs 2026-02-11
The Prime Minister pretends not to know about Matthew Doyle, but it was on the front page of The Sunday Times. He cannot explain why he gave this man a peerage—I think Labour Members should be wonderi...
PMQs 2026-02-11
The Prime Minister is demonstrating stratospheric levels of delusion if he thinks the problem is on the Opposition Benches. He did not say anything about why the Cabinet Secretary is going, but we kno...
PMQs 2024-05-22
I welcome Figen Murray from the Gallery who lost her son Martyn seven years ago today in the Manchester Arena attack. We remember everybody who was lost in that awful attack. The infected blood scanda...
PMQs 2024-05-01
Thousands of constituents have suffered from foul polluted air due to a landfill site. The owner has environmental crimes, gave £200,000 to Vaughan Gething, and his company was loaned £400,000 by the ...
PMQs 2024-04-17
Abhors a two-tier policing system. Does PM agree that complete transparency is vital throughout this investigation?...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 683Sexual Assault Survivors Isle of Wight 2026-04-29
Virginia Giuffre took her life just one year ago. [4D [K ago. She had shared her abuse by convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Eps [3D [K Epstein. On 16 April, Lisa Phillips came to Parliament suppo...
Government Procurement British Businesses 2026-04-28
What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues [K to ensure Government procurement supports British businesses. In Stafford, [K world-class manufacturers such as GE Vernova produce technology for th...
Topical Questions 2026-04-23
Successive Governments have handed public contrac [7D [K contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to the US tech firm Palantir [8D [K Palantir, including the Ministry of Defence and NHS England,...
Ministerial Code 2026-04-23
At Prime Minister’s questions yesterday, when asked by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey), the Prime Minister failed to deny that he knew that his team were lobbying ...
Ministerial Code 2026-04-23
The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister is perfectly intelligent enough to know that there is an enormous difference between those two words. I will remind him that the Prime Minister is bound by th...
Ministerial Code 2026-04-23
Paragraph 1.6.c of the ministerial code states: “It is of paramount importance that ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opp...
Ministerial Code 2026-04-23
It is really great that Ministers have rapidly set about reforming the ministerial code so that never again will the public purse be forced to pay out £253,720 for ex-Ministers who were in post for le...
Ministerial Code 2026-04-23
I was reading the ministerial code just yesterday evening. Paragraph 2.1 states: “The Prime Minister is the ultimate judge of the standards of behaviour expected of a minister and the appropriate cons...
Government Procurement British Companies 2026-04-23
Happy St George's day, Mr Speaker. GE Vernova, in [2D [K in my constituency of Stafford, Eccleshall and the villages, is creating 40 [2D [K 400 new jobs to add to the 1,400 people it already employs. ...
Government Procurement British Companies 2026-04-23
What steps he is taking to increase levels of pro [3D [K procurement from British companies through Government contracts?...