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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Political correspondent

Sunak declares wife’s link to childcare firm amid standards investigation

Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty.
Sunak is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, over whether he properly declared Murty’s shareholding. Photograph: Ian West/PA

Rishi Sunak has declared his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company that could benefit from a new government policy, four years after she invested in the company, a much-delayed new register of ministers’ interests has shown.

In a footnote to his entry on the register, Sunak declares that among “a number of direct shareholdings” owned by his wife, Akshata Murty, is a “minority shareholding” in Koru Kids, one of six companies involved in a pilot scheme to incentivise people to become childminders.

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