16-04-2021, 09:27 AM
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Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56768601NHS Wales gave the company, which specialises in the secure storage, shredding and scanning of documents, £300,000 of business this year.
In March this year, Mr Hancock declared in the MPs' register of interests that he had acquired more than 15% of the shares of a company called Topwood Ltd.
But the register did not mention that his sister Emily Gilruth owned a larger portion of the shares and is a director of the firm, or that Topwood has links to the NHS.
Public contract records show that the NHS awarded Topwood a place in its Shared Business Services framework as a potential supplier for local NHS trusts in 2019, the year after Mr Hancock became health secretary.
The Department of Health said the health secretary has no active role in running Topwood, and as health secretary for England, he has no responsibility for NHS Wales.
Company records show his sister was involved in the company from its establishment in 2002. But in previous years, before he was given the shares but after he became health secretary, Mr Hancock did not list any connection to Topwood on the register of interests.
When he was secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport in 2017, he did declare that his brother Chris Hancock is CEO of an investment crowdfunding company called Crowd2Fund.
16-04-2021, 11:05 AM
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Re: Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
Originally Posted by Omah
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56768601Another one of Hancock's "Dodgy Deals" .....
16-04-2021, 11:14 AM
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Re: Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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The Ministerial code is NOT the law.
That is easily changed.
The nature of my job was that I had to be positively vetted.
That included access to all my finances and those of my family.
I had Shareholdings, mostly in Government Privatisations.
They were no problem as they were small and irrelevant.
My 500 shares in BT were not deemed to be a threat to National Security.
16-04-2021, 11:19 AM
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Re: Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiThat is easily changed.
The nature of my job was that I had to be positively vetted.
That included access to all my finances and those of my family.
I had Shareholdings, mostly in Government Privatisations.
They were no problem as they were small and irrelevant.
My 500 shares in BT were not deemed to be a threat to National Security.
16-04-2021, 12:56 PM
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Re: Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
Originally Posted by Judd
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"Another one of Hancock's "Dodgy Deals""Not too dissimilar to the fourteen Labour MPs and councillors being charged with fraud and expenses charges then?
16-04-2021, 01:20 PM
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Re: Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
Originally Posted by Bread
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Joining the dots of coincidence to conclude another conspiracy theory..... yawn.
Nope Bread.
Life is different when you are paid for by the Public.
You have to be clean and no suggestion at all of corruption.
It is not that difficult or restrictive being vetted.
They are not bothered at all about access to your emails arranging a 3some with the local vicar and his wife.
They are not bothered at all about your registered shareholdings if they are less than £10,000.
They know you sometimes pay cash for things.
Anything else is a no no, which is how it should be.
I have never taken a penny in my life and am proud of it.
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