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HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI respectfully disagree with the hon. Lady.16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI am sure my hon. Friend will agree with me that it is important to ensure that whoever holds that role is not under constant political pressure to attack the Prime Minister for…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationLet me briefly answer the hon. Lady. I cannot speak to other investigations that may or may not have been in progress, but we will find about them in due course. That speaks for…16 Jun 2022HANSARDCabinet OfficeSince the pandemic began, civil servants have been delivering the Government’s priorities both from the workplace and occasionally from home. I have written to all Secretaries of…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests Resignationindicated assent.16 Jun 2022HANSARDCabinet OfficeSince the pandemic began, civil servants have been delivering the Government’s priorities both from the workplace and occasionally from home. My right hon. Friend the Minister for…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI realise that it is challenging, but if Labour Members wish a change of Prime Minister, they ought to try to win a general election; they are not going to be able to do it.16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationMy right hon. Friend makes a very good point, and it of course is an age-old principle of natural justice that no person should be a judge in their own cause. Where an individual…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationThey have not always done so, and I gave examples last week in the Opposition day debate of cases where Labour Prime Ministers did not take resignations from Ministers who were…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationIt is the job of all Members of Parliament of all political parties to maintain the honour and integrity of this House, and that is what the Prime Minister continues to do. The…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationIt is kind of the right hon. Lady to ask that question. I think the Prime Minister has a lot of good luck in winning elections. He won elections in London, he won a general…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI am afraid that we will have to wait and see. May I take this opportunity to refer to an earlier question? I think I may have mischaracterised what the hon. Member for Argyll and…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI think we can do without the literary references, but what I will say is that the letter does exist. I can confirm that, and it will be released very soon. By the way, it has…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationThe hon. Gentleman may well be disappointed; he will find that looking for scandal under every stone is disappointing.16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationOf course, the Prime Minister maintains the highest standards in public life and will continue to do so. Despite all the scurrilous suggestions otherwise, the hon. Lady has given…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationMy hon. Friend makes a good point, which I alluded to before. We must be careful to ensure that future independent arrangements are made so that individuals or entities are not…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI can only reiterate what I have said before.16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationLet me start by thanking Lord Geidt for his work as Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests and, indeed, for his years of public service before he took up that role. I hold…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI think the position may become a bit clearer when the letters are published very shortly, but on the point that the hon. Gentleman makes about the future arrangements, they will…16 Jun 2022HANSARDIndependent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ResignationI think all our independent advisers since 2006 have been independent of politics. They have been people of the highest integrity and probity, as is Lord Geidt. It is a position…16 Jun 2022