Helen MacNamara
(Picture: gov.uk)The Government’s former ethics chief has apologised after being fined by the Met Police for attending a lockdown party in Westminster.
Helen MacNamara said she is “sorry for the error of judgment I have shown” after being fined over the partygate scandal.
She reportedly went to a boozy karaoke bash in the Cabinet Office on June 18, 2020, when indoor gatherings were banned.
Ms MacNamara said she has paid the fine, believed to be £50, she was handed over the event held to mark the departure of a private secretary.
As director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office, Ms MacNamara was responsible for ensuring the highest standards of propriety, integrity and governance within government.
She was in the role from 2018 to 2020 and left the civil service to work for the Premier League.
Last week the Met announced 20 fines in relation to an investigation into alleged lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street and across Whitehall in 2020 and 2021.
Ms MacNamara is the only one so far to confirm they have paid the fine.
The Telegraph reported she attended a leaving party for Hannah Young, a Downing Street aide, who was moving to New York to take up a role with the British Consulate General.
Other Downing Street staff who attended a party the night before the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral are among those to have been handed fines.
