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Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards: 2023-24 Annual Report

The Commissioner's Annual Report for 2023-24 has been published and can be read here (pdf, 1002KB). 

Notes for Editors 

The current framework for Parliamentary Standards dates from 1995, when the first Commissioner was appointed. Daniel Greenberg CB is the seventh Commissioner. He was appointed for five years with effect from 1 January 2023. The appointment is not renewable.

The Commissioner's main duties are:

  • to maintain the Register of Members' Financial Interests and the other registers of interests for Members' staff, journalists and All-Party Groups; 
  • to provide advice confidentially to Members;  
  • to advise the Committee on Standards on the interpretation of the Code of Conduct; 
  • to monitor the operation of the Code of Conduct and registers and to make recommendations to the Committee thereon; 
  • to investigate, if he thinks fit, specific matters which have come to his attention relating to the conduct of Members and to report on them to the Committee on Standards; and 
  • to consider cases arising under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme. The Commissioner's remit was extended on 19 July 2018 to allow him to oversee investigations and make findings in cases against MPs under the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS). 

 Details of the ICGS can be found here. Details of the Independent Expert Panel can be found here. 

The Commissioner's remit does not extend to the House of Lords. Information about the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards can be found here. 

Complaints about the misuse of the scheme for parliamentary expenses since May 2010 are a matter for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. Information about their Compliance Officer is here. 

The Commissioner's Annual Report can be read here (pdf, 1002KB).

The statistics in the Report cover the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. The narrative of the Report covers the period to end of September 2024.  

Memoranda on individual cases investigated by the Commissioner and referred to the Committee on Standards during the year were published as appendices to Reports of the Committee on Standards. 

Details of cases concluded via the rectification process can be found here. 

Details of cases not upheld, where no memorandum was sent to the Committee, can be found here. 

Allegations under investigation by the Commissioner can be found here. For details of the complaints process, decision-making, sanctions and appeals in Code of Conduct cases, see also the Procedural Protocol in respect of the Code of Conduct, HC 1084. 

 The latest edition of the Register of Members' Financial Interests can be found here. 

The Commissioner's office is available for media enquiries at standardscommissioner@parliament.uk. Please see the Commissioner’s office’s published Press FAQs, including that the office does not comment on the conduct of individual MPs outside of the information published on its website, nor on individual entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests nor on the interests of individual MPs. The Commissioner’s office does notinterpret the rules in response to media enquiries.