Restrictions shouldn’t be introduced on how much time MPs can spend on their second jobs or how much they get paid for them, the House of Commons Committee on Standards said in a report on Tuesday.
Following a review of the Code of Conduct for MPs, the committee made a series of recommendations including an outright ban on the provision of paid parliamentary advice and the establishment of a formal route of appeal. But it backed away from putting restrictions on MPs’ extra earnings after its consultation on the proposal showed a lack of “broad cross-party support.”
