Attorney General’s Office: Conflicts of Interest

Debate between Lucy Rigby and Harriet Cross

Thursday 23rd January 2025 Commons Chamber

[The Solicitor General]

I have already addressed that point.

[Harriet Cross (Gordon and Buchan) (Con)]

Does the Minister accept that the Law Officers’ convention does not extend to questions of recusal or conflicts of interest, and that the House and the British people have the right to have questions on those matters answered transparently?

[The Solicitor General]

I have been abundantly clear on this: where the Attorney General has conflicts, he will recuse himself. The Law Officers’ convention does not permit me to say in relation to which matters he has recused himself, because in doing so I would reveal the matters that the Law Officers have been asked to advise on, or indeed have advised on.