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HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewThe investigation that the Government are conducting in relation to the Minister is independent. The ethics adviser is independent, as I have alluded to a number of times. The…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewI am afraid that I do not know the veracity of the right hon. Lady’s allegations, but I share her concern. If that were to be true, it would clearly be unwelcome in the United…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewThe independent adviser will write a letter to the Prime Minister following his investigation, which will detail the facts as he understands them and the case that has been made…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewI think the hon. Lady might be slightly confused.23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewI will happily mansplain it to the hon. Gentleman, if I may say so! The independent adviser is independent, and the proper process will be followed. I remind the House that the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewThe Electoral Commission has looked at some of these issues and fined Labour Together for previous errors, but other than that investigation, I am not aware of any accusations of…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewI can only speak on behalf of the Government; as far as I am aware, it is not providing any services.23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewLabour Together is a separate organisation to the Labour party. It is not for the Labour party or the Government to investigate third-party organisations. It would be like asking…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewWhen coming into office, the Prime Minister was committed to improving the systems that we inherited. That was established with the ethics adviser being made independent—being…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewIt is important to clarify that the allegations are not against the Labour party or the Government, but against the think-tank Labour Together. There is no suggestion that the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am happy to answer that point. As the hon. Member for Normanton and Hemsworth (Jon Trickett) pointed out, I have not received one…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLabour Together and APCO Worldwide: Cabinet Office ReviewFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I understand that the Chief Whip spoke to the Minister in question this morning to inform him that the Prime Minister had decided to…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressThe shadow Minister asked a number of questions, which I will take in turn. He asked if the appointment of the new Cabinet Secretary had resulted in any delay or change to the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressThe appointment of the new Cabinet Secretary has no bearing whatsoever on this process or on the Government’s compliance with the Humble Address. As the hon. Member would expect,…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressI can confirm that those documents will be made available, subject, I am afraid, to the exclusion of one particular item, in which No. 10 asked Peter Mandelson a number of…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressIn relation to investigations and inquiries, the House will know that the criminal investigation being led by the Metropolitan police takes primacy. Neither the House nor the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressI can confirm that the Government are complying, and will continue to comply, fully with the requests from the Metropolitan police, as well as from Parliament in relation to the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressMy experience of the civil servants in the propriety and ethics team is unquestionably that they work extremely hard, comply with the civil service code and seek to ensure that…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressDocuments that are published as part of the Humble Address will of course comply with the terms of the Humble Address. As I have said to hon. Members before, if there are…23 Feb 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Government Response to Humble AddressI think the right hon. Member is referring to 2023, which is of course before this Government were in office. I confirm that we are in the middle of negotiations with the…23 Feb 2026