Government will not be progressing with proposal to enforce ‘reasonable’ restrictions on outside work
Boris Johnson’s plan to impose limits on MPs’ second jobs in the wake of the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal has been abandoned.
The Government will not be progressing with a proposal to enforce “reasonable” restrictions on outside work to prevent MPs neglecting their full “range of duties”.
It comes as Lord Evans, the ethics watchdog chief, reignited the debate by reiterating calls for an “indicative” ceiling on the time MPs spend on other ventures.
The chairman of the committee on standards in public life told Sky News: “We’ve suggested that one might want to give indicative figures in terms of hours. So far, the parliamentary authorities have not decided to go down that route, but we think there are attractions in that.”