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Department: Attorney General

Oral Answers to Questions

Ben Maguire Excerpts
Wednesday 14th October 2026

(1 day, 21 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

Ben Maguire Portrait Ben Maguire (North Cornwall) (LD)
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Simon Andriesz, a former finance manager, blew the whistle over hundreds of millions of dollars of financial crime, exposing links between the United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The Financial Conduct Authority wrongly told him that he had lost his legal protection as a whistleblower. Simon said:

“The personal consequences of whistleblowing, and the retaliation that followed, have been devastating for my family and me.”

Last month, Simon sadly took his own life. The FCA review is being carried out by a member of its own board. Will the Attorney General meet Cabinet colleagues to discuss this, and the case for an “office of the whistleblower”?