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Registration of interests
The main purpose of the Register of Members’ Financial Registrar of
Members’ Financial
Interests is to provide information of any financial interest
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or other material benefit which a Member receives that
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might reasonably be thought by others to influence his or interests
her actions, speeches or votes in Parliament or actions taken intranet.
parliament.uk/DoI
in his or her capacity as a Member of Parliament.
Registration of such interests is required under resolutions of
the House.

You must register your interests within one month of taking
your seat. Thereafter you should inform the Registrar of any
change to your registrable interests within four weeks of its
occurrence. You are required to register your interests even if
you have a nil return.
In addition, you must declare interests which are relevant
to particular parliamentary proceedings and this obligation
applies from the time you take your seat.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards will write to The Parliamentary
Commissioner for
you shortly after you are elected with information about your
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obligations under the Code of Conduct (see page 6) and
standards
related rules of the House, including how you should register commissioner
and declare your relevant interests. Further information can @parliament.uk
be found at intranet.parliament.uk/DoI.

The Parliamentary Commissioner also investigates
complaints against Members.

There are also Registers of Interests for Members’ staff, Assistant Registrar
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All-Party Groups and journalists. These are available on
Parliament’s website. Your staff should contact the Assistant
Registrar for advice on registering their interests.