Question to the Cabinet Office:

To the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on whether a Minister who is found by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to have broken the House of Commons Code of Conduct can remain a Minister.

As the Ministerial Code sets out, “ministers only remain in office for so long as they retain the confidence of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is the ultimate judge of the standards of behaviour expected of a minister and the appropriate consequences of a breach of those standards”.