Submitted on Thursday 28th April 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Audit MPs & government advisors personal finances for links to covid contracts
Undertake an investigation into MPs & government advisors to establish whether they personally gained from decisions they have made or influenced. All personal shares in companies that have gained from government policy should be investigated e.g.
pharmaceutical companies, testing & PPE suppliers.
Transparency International reported that there were corruption red flags in 20% in UK's (covid) PPE contracts. Of particular concern was the ‘VIP’ lane used to fast track offers of PPE from companies referred by MPs, peers & senior officials. The High Court ruled that the government acted unlawfully by failing to disclose details of Covid-related contracts until forced to do so by litigation. It is therefore appropriate to investigate whether these decisions were driven by personal gain.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. MPs are already required to declare financial interests, which you can see here
www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/registers-of-interests/register-of-members-financial-interests/
The failure to register a relevant interest could be a breach of the Code of Conduct for Members, which you can read more about here:
www.parliament.uk/business/publications/commons/hoc-code-of-conduct/
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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