Sinn Féin's MPs should be required to list their interests in the House of Commons register, an influential committee ruled today.
The Commons' standards and privileges committee said the rules on registration should apply to all MPs, including those who do not take their seats.
Sinn Féin's four MPs were recently granted office facilities at Westminster and allowances, but decline to take their seats in the chamber of the Commons because they refuse to swear the traditional oath to the Queen.
But in a report published today the committee agreed with the Clerk of the House, Mr William Mackay, that the MPs' Code of Conduct and the rules on registration and declaration of interests "apply to all Members whether they have taken their seat or not".
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