Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, has accumulated nearly 300 gifts over the past four years, which includes numerous bottles of alcohol, ties, cufflinks, and other items. Despite the option to donate gifts to his office or parliament, he opted to retain them. His voluntary gift declarations foreground issues of transparency and the potential scale of undeclared gifts among MPs, as critics advocate for stricter regulations on gift disclosures similar to those applied in the public sector.
Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, has kept almost 300 gifts over the last four years including dozens of bottles of alcohol, hampers, ties, cufflinks and chocolates, his declarations show.
Tom Brake, the director of the Unlock Democracy campaign group, said: 'The speaker's voluntary declaration of the gifts he receives shines a light on the potential scale of freebies accepted but undeclared by MPs.'
...the register gives a glimpse of some of the free gifts offered to politicians, who are only required to declare those worth more than 300.
Priti Patel, the Conservative MP and shadow foreign secretary, has sent him a Christmas pudding at least three years in a row.
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