Extract from Commons debate on Advisory Committee: Business Appointments - June 28

Friday, 29 June 2018 08:59

Christian Matheson (City of Chester) (Lab):...In addition to ACOBA’s toothlessness, there are further problems, for example with conflicts of interest. There are numerous, multiple examples of members of the committee declaring interests in firms to which the applicants were being appointed, but not recusing themselves from those cases. This included Mary Jo Jacobi, who has financial interests in BP but did not recuse herself from Vernon Gibson’s application, and John Wood, who...Request free trial