A former member of the House of Commons Standards Board, he will only have to apologise. And how the heck does he have time to be an MP. Let’s hope the people of Torridge learn in time for the next election.
“A Conservative MP who failed to declare more than £400,000 of outside earnings will only have to apologise to the Commons after Parliament’s Standards Committee decided not to formally punish him for the breach.
In a judgement that will increase criticism over the body, Geoffrey Cox QC will be asked to make an apology, but no formal action will be taken.
The Standards Committee found that Geoffrey Cox QC had committed a “serious” breach of rules, although it accepted he had not “intended to hide” the payments for hundreds of hours of legal work. …
… Earlier in 2015 it emerged that Cox declared earnings of £820,000 from outside work and second jobs — 12 times the annual MP wage.
According to the latest register of members’ financial interests, Mr Cox received £325,000 on June 15 and 16 this year for 500 hours of work carried out between June 2014 and March 2015.
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