Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests Debate
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Ronnie Cowan
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Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests
Ronnie Cowan Excerpts(1 year, 5 months ago)
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Alex Burghart
I know that the next independent adviser will want to take that case extremely seriously.
Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde) (SNP)
It is important to point out that the Prime Minister appoints his own ethics adviser. He then determines which investigations can be undertaken, and then he determines what actions are taken depending on the outcome. Is that maybe why the last two ethics advisers have resigned?
Alex Burghart
The hon. Gentleman will have heard me say several times, in reference to whether an independent adviser can initiate proceedings, that Lord Geidt was happy with the proposals made in May; he said that it would be a workable scheme.