![]() ![]() "The commission have found that in doing so, I inadvertently committed a minor breach of the House rule that forbids members from lobbying the commissioner or members of the committee over an investigation. "In March I wrote to the standards' commissioner to give context to an investigation he was leading about actions taken in response to a government call to arms during the pandemic," he said. ![]() The MP, who is currently sitting as an independent after being stripped of the Conservative whip, told the Commons he was grateful to be able to make his statement "at the earliest possible opportunity". ![]() Now he has appeared in the House of Commons, where he has said he was "happy" to apologise. Mr Hancock committed the "minor breach" by writing an unsolicited letter to Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg in defence of senior Tory Steve Brine, who was under investigation for an alleged breach of lobbying rules. As we reported earlier today, former health secretary Matt Hancock has been found to have breached the MPs' code of conduct by attempting to influence the Commons standards tsar. ![]()
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