New MPs' code of conduct to tighten lobbying rules

Key Facts

• The review of the code comes after a number of lobbying scandals hit Westminster in 2021, leading to questions about whether MPs should be allowed to have second jobs.
• In its final recommendations, the standards committee - made up of MPs and lay members - stops short of calling for a ban on all second jobs.
• The committee also said MPs should have a written contract for any outside work "which makes explicit that their duties cannot include lobbying ministers, members or public officials, or providing advice about how to lobby or influence Parliament".
• So, under these proposals, MPs will not be able to work as consultants who give parliamentary advice and they'd need to have a contract in any second job that spells this out.

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