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HANSARD Standards in Public LifeThe Foreign Office is currently reviewing the terms of the contract that led to the suggestion of severance payments when Peter Mandelson was sacked, and it is due to update the…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeNo.09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeMy hon. Friend will know that it was a clear manifesto commitment of our party to ban second jobs for Members of Parliament, except in limited circumstances such as those…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeMy hon. Friend is right to bring us back to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and to all women and girls who have been subjected to these atrocious crimes across the country, because…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeI can confirm that the Government will be working with the Intelligence and Security Committee; meetings are happening today and tomorrow morning about that. The Government are…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeThe Prime Minister apologised last Thursday for having appointed Peter Mandelson. Had information that is now available been available at the time of his appointment, he would not…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeOn the first part of the right hon. Gentleman’s question, I would just remind him that the reforms that this Government have made in the past 18 months, and those we are talking…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeAs I said in my statement, on a number of those measures, we are looking at current procedures, and at whether they can be updated to provide more transparency. The hon. Member is…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeAs the hon. Lady will have heard, if the Prime Minister had had access to the information that he now has about the depth and extent of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeThe hon. Member will know that the Government are committed to working with peers in the other place to modernise the House of Lords and that we agree that that needs to happen.…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeAs I said in my statement, the vast majority of Members of this House, and also civil servants and other political appointments in the other place, come into politics to serve the…09 Feb 2026HANSARD Standards in Public LifeThe hon. Gentleman seems to be wishing for more chaos in our country. The public voted to end that at the last general election, and that is why this Government are getting on…09 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesThe person who has to take responsibility for their failings is Peter Mandelson. The shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster knows that the process for political appointments,…02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesThe hon. Lady knows that it is not the Government who instigate criminal investigations. It is for the Crown Prosecution Service and the police to take those decisions…02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesThe information that became available in September that led to the sacking of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States made it clear for the first time, to all of us and…02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesThe Prime Minister’s judgment was made clear when, as soon as information that he had been misled by Peter Mandelson became available, he sacked him.02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesAs far as I am aware, no Member of this House had access to the information recently published by the United States Department for Justice, or to the documents that were released…02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesMy hon. Friend is right that the public expect that if we break the law or the rules, there should be consequences. In this House, that is the case, but in the House of Lords, it…02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesThe Cabinet Secretary, as we speak, is reviewing the Government archives to see what documents we have available on the time when Peter Mandelson served as a Labour Minister. As I…02 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesAs the hon. Lady knows from the discussion in the House today, it is not that we do not wish to take action in respect of Peter Mandelson; it is that we expect action to be taken…02 Feb 2026