Government urged to publish transparency returns after 180 days of silence

In House of Commons business questions today, Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant asked leader Penny Mordaunt about the ministerial register of interests.

Sir Chris said: “No department has published transparency returns for anything after the end of September. So that’s 180 days. If it were an ordinary MP, they’d have to register everything within 28 days. The leader of the House has been saying for some time she promised the House before Christmas that she was going to get this sorted”.