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Former Prime Ministers: Convictions

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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 18205, tabled on 5 December 2024

Question

Mr Richard Holden
Conservative
Basildon and Billericay
Commons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 4 December 2024, Official Report, column 291, on what evidential basis he stated that two of the Leader of the Opposition’s predecessors had convictions for breaking covid rules.

Answer

Georgia Gould
Labour
Queen's Park and Maida Vale
Commons

Answered on

8 January 2025

My Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister was referring to the Fixed Penalty Notices received by two former Prime Ministers for breaking COVID lockdown rules. The Prime Minister is happy to clarify that a Fixed Penalty Notice does not constitute a criminal conviction. He stands by the relevance of raising to the attention of the House that two former Conservative Prime Ministers were fined by the police for breaking the COVID rules that they put in place for others.

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