Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch on 19 September (HL812), whether the financial declaration by the then Shadow Secretary of State before the general election was re-submitted as a Ministerial declaration to the Permanent Secretary when they submitted the Recruitment Principles exemption request for Emily Middleton.

Ministers’ parliamentary declarations are reviewed as standard as part of the conflicts mitigation process. The Secretary of State declared his interests to the Permanent Secretary in line with usual practice.