Inside Qatar's attempts to win friends and gain influence among MPs in Westminster ⤵️ 🔴 Qatar has donated more than £250,000 to British MPs in the run-up to the World Cup over the past year, including for visits and hotel stays to the Gulf state
said ministers who go to the World Cup “should wear Pride armbands”. Mr Bryant, the chair of the Commons Committee on Standards, has previously said he regrets visiting Qatar on an expenses-paid trip by the Doha government last year, and that he went to “tell the Qatari government what I thought about workers’ rights, [LGBT+]rights and climate change”.
The code says MPs should not enter into any “contractual arrangement” which jeopardises their “complete independence” in Parliament. Any member doing so must record it in the register of financial interests and decide whether there is a potential conflict of interest. The 2014 Lobbying Act established a mandatory register for written or oral questions to ministers and permanent secretaries by so-called “consultant lobbyists”.
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