Parliament’s standards watchdog has launched an inquiry into the Prime Minister’s potential breach of transparency relating to his wife’s financial interest in a childminding agency.
The probe by the Standards Commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, relates to the shares Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty holds in the Koru Kids that could benefit from a policy announced in the budget.
The PM has been accused of a possible conflict of interest after he failed to mention his wife’s links to Koru Kids when he was questioned by MPs over why new childminders joining agencies will receive a larger financial incentive than those who sign up as independent childminders.
On the Standards Commissioner’s website it states that a declaration of interest is the matter under investigation, referring to paragraph 6 of the MPs’ code of conduct, which governs how MPs should behave.
