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HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)I thank the Minister. Amendment 32 would require public authorities or officials assisting an inquiry, investigation, inquest or independent panel to demonstrate that they have…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I am sure the Minister has seen them, but I was going to quote them none the less. I have mentioned the Office for Budget Responsibility, which I know is an organisation with…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)Might I seek some clarity on what happens with area coroners as opposed to senior coroners?02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)The amendment seeks to ensure that all public authorities and organisations adopt a consistent and high-quality approach to their codes of ethical conduct by requiring the…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I know that we dealt with this matter earlier, but I again put on the record my concerns about subcontractors in tiers 1, 2 and 3, who often hold key information. We need to find…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)Can I ask the Minister for clarity? A lot of the proposed legislation seems to deal with when an investigation has been called for or set up. There may be a significant gap…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)Amendment 31 would clarify that an indirect wrongdoing would be considered an occurrence of misconduct or failure when examined as part of an inquiry, investigation, inquest or…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)On a point of order, Mr Dowd. I am not entirely clear about the process for this, but I realise that in the morning session I should have declared that I have an interest as the…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)How helpful has the existing law been in relation to the covid inquiry, which my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle mentioned? I am not sure that has quite got to the base of…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the Minister for her contribution. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn .02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I again seek clarity. Are non-executive directors of an NHS trust, for example—who might be party to all sorts of information—within the scope of the Bill? I would also like to…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)rose—02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)I am delighted to have got to this bit. I speak to this clause in particular, because I am extremely concerned that the duty of candour should capture subcontractors and the…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the Minister for that clarity. On the basis that we are going to meet to discuss this, and that Pete Weatherby and hon. Members from the Minister’s party will be involved…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)The amendment would ensure that any person involved in providing a service to a service provider—we are back to our subcontracting discussion —will fall under a duty to comply…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)To give an example, if the local authority children’s services department sets up an investigation into something or does one of its serious case reviews—or whatever they are…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Third sitting)I rise to support amendment 3, proposed by the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle. I am also a co-signatory of amendment 1, and I thank the right hon. Member for Liverpool Garston…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 28, in clause 9, page 8, line 22, leave out subsection (6) and insert— “(6) The Secretary of State must introduce a standard template for ethical conduct…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)Does the Minister accept that a huge number of authorities, bodies and organisations may not, whether wittingly or not, recognise somebody as a whistleblower? There is a real…02 Dec 2025HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill (Fourth sitting)In the interests of clarity, will the Minister explain whether the intelligence and security services are now captured by the list in part 2? Will she also explain what happens to…02 Dec 2025