Committee on Standards publishes report on conduct of Marcus Fysh

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The House of Commons Committee on Standards has published a report on the conduct of Marcus Fysh. The report follows an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards into whether Fysh had breached the requirements set out in paragraph 13 of the 2023 Code of Conduct for Members, relating to the confidentiality of the Commissioner's investigations. This investigation arose in the context of an earlier investigation by the Commissioner into whether the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Education, of which Fysh was Chair, had breached the requirements set out in the APPG Rules. In its report, the Committee found that Fysh ‘breached rule 13 of the Code of Conduct by providing a statement to the media, in which he set out the actions he was taking in response to an ongoing investigation by the Commissioner’. The Committee’s recommended sanction is that Fysh should apologise to the House of Commons by a means...