questionText: To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, with reference to paragraph 17 of the Eighth Report of Session 2022-23 of the Committee on Standards, All-Party Parliamentary Groups: final proposals, HC 228, published on 5 April 2023, what steps the Commission is taking to ensure that Secretariats of APPGs (a) are not funded by and (b) do not receive benefits from foreign governments.
answerText: The Commission does not control or regulate All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs).The Committee on Standards put forward recommendations which were approved by the House on 19 July 2023. These included the following provisions which are now contained wit...
heading: All-party Parliamentary Groups: National Security