On 27 April 2026, the Commissioner wrote to the Speaker to set out his views on a parliamentary motion proposing changes to the code of ethics for MPs and the code of ethics for ministers. The Commissioner welcomed some of the proposed changes, including the introduction of the values of loyalty, objectivity, honesty, accountability, transparency…
On 6 January 2026, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life wrote to the Prime Minister regarding ministers’ declarations of assets for the year 2024. This letter followed a request by the Commissioner to obtain copies of the declarations, since the longstanding practice of publishing ministerial asset declarations had ceased. In December 2025 the Cabinet…
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 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a report on the system by which ministers and other MPs declare their assets every year. The report is one of the final outputs of a two-year project entitled “Improving the Integrity and Transparency Framework in Malta”, which was being conducted by the OECD at…
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…
