Deputy Labour leader @AngelaRayner has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone to ask whether the PM has broken the rules by failing to declare the value of his holiday in Spain last month in the MPs’ register of financial interests. 
The Prime Minister did declare the holiday in his ministerial register of interests yesterday, insisting that he received the holiday free of charge.
The villa itself rents for a reported £25k-a-week. But the holiday wasn’t mentioned in that entry.
The villa itself rents for a reported £25k-a-week. But the holiday wasn’t mentioned in that entry.
Kathryn Stone’s investigation into the Mustique holiday concluded the PM was right to declare its value in his MPs’ register of interests.
“The Commissioner concluded that Mr Johnson was required under the House’s rules to register the holiday accommodation he received.”
“The Commissioner concluded that Mr Johnson was required under the House’s rules to register the holiday accommodation he received.”
Defence for Number 10 is in the MPs’ code of conduct.
It states MPs do not have to declare visits abroad if they are “wholly unconnected with membership of the House or with the Member’s parliamentary or political activities (e.g. family holidays).”
It states MPs do not have to declare visits abroad if they are “wholly unconnected with membership of the House or with the Member’s parliamentary or political activities (e.g. family holidays).”
But as Angela Rayner notes, the PM gave Lord Goldsmith his life peerage following the 2019 election.
Herewith the receipts:
This was the declaration in the MPs’ register of financial interests following the Mustique holiday.
This was the declaration in the MPs’ register of financial interests following the Mustique holiday.
But nothing in the latest MPs’ latest register of financial interests that run up to October 18th this year.
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