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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

Ministerial code completely inadequate, civil servants’ unions tell MPs

Palace of Westminster
Unions say MPs arrested on suspicion of a sexual or violent offence should be prevented from accessing the parliamentary estate. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

No civil servant who went through the complaints process against the former justice secretary Dominic Raab would ever want to go through it again, such was the ordeal, MPs have been told.

There was “zero confidence” in the process of raising complaints about ministers and the ministerial code was “completely inadequate”, trade union leaders representing civil servants told the Commons standards committee.

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