Standards committee calls for AAPGs reforms to avert ‘next great parliamentary scandal’
Hostile foreign states and others pose a “real risk” of gaining access and wielding influence through all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs), the Commons standards committee has warned.
Calling for reforms to avert what it described as the “next great parliamentary scandal”, the standards committee also voiced concerns that a dramatic rise in the number of the informal cross-party groups also risks “inappropriate influence and access” because they are so difficult to monitor.
