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No Ministerial code breach by MP Cheryl Gillan over High Speed 2 house sale

Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan

MP CHERYL Gillan has not breached the ministerial code over the sale of her Amersham house close to the proposed High Speed 2 route, it has been announced.

The Chesham and Amersham Parliamentarian had come under fire after national media reports at the weekend revealed she had sold her constituency home recently.

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The sale happened before the Government approved the £33bn scheme last week.

The news angered campaigners, triggering further calls for her to resign as Welsh Secretary role.

Labour asked Prime Minister David Cameron to investigate if she had broken the Ministerial code.

But today Mrs Gillan's office revealed she has been found not to have breached the rules.

A brief statement confirmed: “The Prime Minister's official spokesman said this morning at the lobby briefing there has been no breach of the ministerial code.”

Comments(6)

Scarletto says...
4:36pm Tue 17 Jan 12

Not satisfactory Cheryl and hard to completely swallow in the minds of probably many people in the area.

Many of us will now join the chorus calling for her to resign.
She's let us down and seems to0 have acted shamefully, showing little integrity. Not so long ago she was shamed for claiming for pet food on her Commons expenses.
Then she backed opponents of the new rail route but caved in at the 11th hour to back the costly scheme which will spoil our countryside. She also wanted to toe the line with the rest of her Conservative party and desperately please colleagues there who back the rail scheme. There are umpteen other projects which should take priority over this at a time of big spending cuts in vital services.
Now it seems Mrs Gillan quietly sold her Old Amersham home to get away from the nuisance rail line and says it's because of her old husband. She no longer has a home in our area.
She defended her own possible selfish interests but not the lives of her constituents who trusted her to be honest, transparent and decent in her dealings with them.
She seems to face all ways to satisfy all but has other motives, it is alleged.
Hypocrite, I say madam. Be gone with you. Voters must cast her out at the next election.
There have been other MPs like her in the past and they were swept away for their doubtful actions. We haven't forgotten her pet food bills too!

miccles says...
8:27pm Tue 17 Jan 12

Scarletto wrote:
Not satisfactory Cheryl and hard to completely swallow in the minds of probably many people in the area.

Many of us will now join the chorus calling for her to resign.
She's let us down and seems to0 have acted shamefully, showing little integrity. Not so long ago she was shamed for claiming for pet food on her Commons expenses.
Then she backed opponents of the new rail route but caved in at the 11th hour to back the costly scheme which will spoil our countryside. She also wanted to toe the line with the rest of her Conservative party and desperately please colleagues there who back the rail scheme. There are umpteen other projects which should take priority over this at a time of big spending cuts in vital services.
Now it seems Mrs Gillan quietly sold her Old Amersham home to get away from the nuisance rail line and says it's because of her old husband. She no longer has a home in our area.
She defended her own possible selfish interests but not the lives of her constituents who trusted her to be honest, transparent and decent in her dealings with them.
She seems to face all ways to satisfy all but has other motives, it is alleged.
Hypocrite, I say madam. Be gone with you. Voters must cast her out at the next election.
There have been other MPs like her in the past and they were swept away for their doubtful actions. We haven't forgotten her pet food bills too!
She may be a hypocrite, even tho she claimed on expenses, she was not alone, she and 99.95% of poloticians did the same thing, has anybody ever heard of a squeeky clean virginal polotician, who does not take advantage of their political perks?, i don't think there is one.
She sold her house, if you look at it another way, she has every right to sell her house, im not defending her, because just like every other polotician, she is crooked, bent, and i wouldn't trust one with my granny's dirty tissue.

Councillors are just the same, Tett, and BCC, are just the same as this woman, they are robbing the mentally handicapped, the disabled, children with special needs, the elderley, the list goes on, claiming they are "cash strapped", then with the other hand, they are ploughing thousands into HS2, just because its the "done thing to do", they obviously think more of the countryside than people's welfare and day to day life, personally they should be ashamed of themselves, but they are not, All poloticians and councillors are hypocrites, not just this Gillan woman, its just that she is in the spotlight at the moment.

Michael, HP7 says...
8:52pm Tue 17 Jan 12

- Bacon on toast at the Nag's Head, Great Missenden, Anyone?
-'Nearly all our produce & ingrediants are sourced locally'.
- Nudge nudge, oink oink?
Michael, HP7 (ubu)
Jan 17 2012

Slacker says...
9:27pm Tue 17 Jan 12

Im not sure how selling her house would be an offence when HS2 info has been in the public domain for yonks. Everyone who lives near the proposed route are entitled to sell their houses.

chesham20 says...
9:57pm Tue 17 Jan 12

Smug two faced ****. There were rumours it was looking for a property in Chesham, we don't want the cow here, she should go to Wales.

J B Blackett says...
1:52pm Wed 18 Jan 12

This 'honourable' member is not alone ; they are all two-faced professional liars , cheats and hypocrites with very few exceptions

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