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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 November 2025

Debate

Ministerial Code

Contribution

My Lords, criticism of the Government’s breaches of the Ministerial Code do not just come from His Majesty’s Opposition. Paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code sets out that “the most important announcements of government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament”. This morning, the Speaker of the House of Commons criticised the Government for their increasing habit of making these announcements outside Parliament. He said to his local BBC radio station that, in the past, “if you leaked a Budget you would be asked to resign”. Does the Minister agree with the Speaker of another place?

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