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09-10-2020, 05:27 PM
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Ex-transport minister gets £60,000-a-year second job

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54477368

Conservative MP Nus Ghani is doing around seven hours' work a month for Artemis Technologies as it helps to develop new ferries for Belfast.

Ms Ghani, MP for Wealden, East Sussex, was a transport minister from 9 January 2018 until 13 February this year.

In September last year, while in office, the MP wrote a letter to the then Business Minister Chris Skidmore in support of a bid for funding made by Artemis Technologies to UK Research and Innovation.

The bid was later successful, with £33m being awarded,

She had also visited Artemis Technologies' offices while on a regional tour in early 2019, but said she had not had "any other contact" with the company while a minister.

She took up her role with Artemis Technologies - leading a consortium headed by the company to develop zero-emissions ferries for Belfast - in September this year, according to Parliament's register of MPs' interests.

The rules for ex-ministers state Ms Ghani should not lobby the UK government until out of ministerial office for two years and "not draw on" any "privileged" information available when she was in office.
Of course, £60,000 a year for a couple of hours a week or one day a month must be for something - it's certainly not for labour .....

Coincidentally:

Former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has taken up a £100,000-a-year role advising Hutchison Ports, which oversees some of the UK's biggest ports, it was revealed last month.
Smells of sinecure to me .....
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09-10-2020, 05:35 PM
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Re: Ex-transport minister gets £60,000-a-year second job

So what?
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09-10-2020, 06:29 PM
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Re: Ex-transport minister gets £60,000-a-year second job

If the employing companies wish to pay that, what’s the prob?
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Re: Ex-transport minister gets £60,000-a-year second job

Originally Posted by Omah ->

Coincidentally:



Smells of sinecure to me .....
I suppose the party in opposition wasn't guilty of doing this when last in office, or even now?
 

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