On 30 January 2025, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life wrote to the Prime Minister to present his views on the system of asset declarations that applies to ministers and members of Parliament. The Commissioner’s letter followed correspondence that began after ministers’ declarations of assets for the year 2023 were not tabled in Parliament,…
The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life has stated that it would be a breach of ethics if a member of parliament failed to declare his or her income for tax purposes. The Standards Commissioner came to this conclusion after considering three complaints against former MP Dr Jason Azzopardi for not submitting his tax returns…
On 9 November 2021 Parliament’s Standards Committee unanimously adopted a report by the Commissioner for Standards which concluded that the Hon. Rosianne Cutajar MP had failed to declare income from the sale of a property in Mdina. In his report the Commissioner stated that the property in question had been sold for the sum of…
