Member

Those are principles that all Governments should abide by, especially when they relate to economic matters, and the Liberal Democrats have long called for the ministerial code to be enshrined in legislation. In the same vein, amendment 2 would provide for useful scrutiny of the Government’s actions by empowering the OBR to notify the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests if they have reason to believe that vital principles of the code may have been violated. We must never again have a Government put the country’s finances at risk out of their disdain for the rules, and this amendment would help achieve that aim.