🚨The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has found that @RishiSunak should have declared his wife's shareholding in a childminding agency during an evidence session with the Liaison Committee, on 28 March 2023, contrary to Rule 6. The commissioner found Ms Murty's shareholding was a relevant interest that should have been declared during the Liaison Committee meeting on 28 March 2023

After over 3yrs the MoD @DefenceHQ have responded to a FOI request on paid consultancy provided by @duponline Leader and Member of Parliament @J_Donaldson_MP

👇 1/4 The response suggests that @J_Donaldson_MP was contracted through a Single Source arrangement or “non-competitive defence contract.”

MoD used an exemption to withhold info including;

- countries he advised on
- advice sought from JD
- time period he advised for

2/4

I would look closer to home Darren

Conservative candidates, their agents and families have received custodial sentences totalling over 24 years in prison for electoral fraud since 1998.

https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1590017027590483968

Such as the Conservative candidate in 2011 who submitted False applications to register and to vote by post.

They received a 12 month prison sentence

The @NIOgov have searched every physical and electronic record across the entire department - after being contacted by @ICOnews and have located relevant information about @BrandonLewis and @DavidGHFrost meeting with the Loyalist Communities Council, who represent paramilitary .. … organisations.

They have asked that I informally resolve the complaint and the redacted information should be provided along with a fresh response.

@BrandonLewis office originally provided the draft response to this FOI request refusing under s35 - formulation of policy.

The 322 @Conservative MPs who voted against extending Free School Meals during holidays have themselves accepted £130,780.72 of "declarable" free hospitality during withing the last - pandemic 🦠 hit - year.

A thread on some of the highlights 👇 The @Conservative MP for Chippenham @michelledonelan received £494.23 worth of complimentary pizza 🍕 for a party.

She voted No to free school meals over the school holidays until Easter 2021 to prevent over a million children going hungry during this crisis.

Will Ben and company be getting any more complimentary hospitality @FA?

@MarcusRashford

https://twitter.com/BBradley_Mans/status/1318860839437406209

Wouldn’t want Ben to become dependent on free hospitality and certainly would like him to take responsibility for his own food, drinks etc

💷 Cash For Flags? 🇬🇧

Two government departments helped fund a social enterprise charity linked to selling paramilitary flags with £671k.

A thread ... Make sure you read today’s story in the @Irish_News by @brendanhughes64

irishnews.com/news/northerni…

And ...

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Then continue on the thread below ...

A story about a “private meeting” on Sunday night that @DUPLeader attended after being dropped off at the home of @BorisJohnson “friend”, property tycoon and tory donor, Christopher Moran & the SpAd email about electoral planning and assistance that evening.

A thread ... On 24th November 2018, @BorisJohnson appeared at the DUP conference thanking his “friend” Moran, sitting in the front row "for everything he has done for NI, and for helping me to secure this invitation.”

Timothy Johnston of the DUP told Andrew McCormick in December 2016 that two cousins of SpAd Andrew Crawford were in RHI yet the DUP did not tell the public of these connections to the public. How Andrew McCormick was told about Andrew Crawford’s cousins boilers in December 2016 #RHI

According to DEFRA @michaelgove appeared at @ianpaisleymp “political” event in his capacity as MP and not as Minister & thus did not register hospitality received with @DefraGovUK. Even though the event was promoted as “A Dinner for the SOS for Environment Food and Rural Affairs. DEFRA has not confirmed if @michaelgove contributed a fair proportion of the costs for the half day trip towards political events and official engagements or broken down any of the £1300 total - we’ve asked them again to confirm.

Foster tells BBC that the issue (@ianpaisley) is now a matter for the DUP party officers.

Last night some party officers were at a support rally for Ian Paisley. Good to know the party officers are impartial on the issue @dupleader

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1020012757717016576

Ughhh! Did it again @ianpaisleymp

Prediction for tomorrow’s news ...

Jim Wells has questioned the impartiality of a Belfast street bench that decided to adorn itself as a pride flag for Belfast Pride. The bench tweeted its participation in the event which caught the eye of the South Down MLA who has ... ... been doing lots of internet research on LGBTQs. Jim asked whether the bench now intends to take part in next year's Twelfth of July parades. He added "As a bench it has to be totally impartial and neutral, and not to be seen to be involved in any political campaign"

Today is the deadline for DfE to provide a second internal review into this #RHI FOI request.

On both occasions this has taken the full 40 days (ICO state only for exceptional cases). On their response or non-response ICO progress action.

inews.co.uk/news/northern-… The request originally in December 2016 wasn’t responded to in the legal timeframe after multiple submissions by DfE to DUP Minister Simon Hamilton one marked “Urgent”. The Minister didn’t sign off. DfE after 1st internal review stated that it was in breach of regulations.

I said I would make an #RHI themed "Unstoppable" movie poster in honour of Joseph Aiken and Donal Lunny. I couldn't find pictures of either which weren't screen grabbed from the RHI inquiry and even lower quality - this changed the meaning of this somewhat ... back September 4th! It's probably a good thing as they may have sued me 🙄 this ranks up there with my other graphics failures such as Nolan embodying Sir Patrick. Once again apologies to all concerned ... even Arlene.

For those wanting to follow the motion on Ian Paisley's suspension coming before the House of Commons today it is expected to begin a little after 1pm. Timing may slip. Watch at Parliament Live.

parliamentlive.tv Also available on @BBCParliament ( iPlayer ). bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/b…

Key dates in the @ianpaisleymp Sri Lanka scandal PCS detailing a communication in September 2017. It was all his assistants fault.

View the report by the PCS on @ianpaisleyMP here
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm… Ian Paisley gave the commissioner of his belief of the cost of the holidays to be in excess of £50k

On the left is an invoice submitted by @vote_leave for 12 rooms at the Ramada in Dover. On the right is a receipt submitted by @darrengrimes_ of @beleaveuk for food for 21 main courses at the same hotel on the same night, the day before the referendum on EU membership. Perhaps this was just a coincidence that @vote_leave and @beleaveuk were campaigning in Dover that day and happened to use the @ramadadover

Vote Leave however tweeted this the same day with @darrengrimes_ campaigning with the Vote Leave team

Mayor Paul Reid on official duty speaking at the "Not a DUP fundraiser" after the council paid £1500 for a table. When others stated they received their tickets for free. Councillor Sam Hanna (3rd from left) at the event at the expense of the council having his photo taken with DUP colleagues.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has reported @PaulGirvanMP "acknowledged the breach" of the Code of Conduct in relation to his misuse of parliamentary stationery and has "apologised for it, and refunded the value
of the misused stationery to the House authorities" The commissioner stated "the breach was inadvertent and
that it was at the least serious end of the spectrum" and "I accept that his use of House-provided stationery to encourage donations to local charities was motivated by a genuine wish to help constituents in need."