Sunak says sorry for code breach over wife’s shares

London, August 24

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologised to the UK parliamentary watchdog after an investigation concluded that his failure to declare wife Akshata Murty’s business interest in a childminding agency arose “out of confusion” and was “inadvertent”.

Inadvertent error

The UK parliamentary watchdog after a probe concluded that Rishis’ failure to declare wife Akshata Murty’s business interest in a childminding agency arose “out of confusion” and was “inadvertent”

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, had opened an inquiry into allegations that when discussing the government’s financial incentive scheme for people joining the childminding workforce, Sunak failed to declare that his wife held shares in one of six childminding agencies selected by the government to provide its new members with an enhanced financial incentive.

After the inquiry, Greenberg concluded that he was satisfied that Sunak had confused the concept of registration with the concept of declaration of interests.