According to a report by the Lords Commissioner for Standards, Lord Geidt, who served as the former prime minister’s advisor from April 2021 until his resignation in June 2022, opened a meeting in May 2021 between the officials and Theia Group Inc., the company that hired him.
The commissioner said the peer had broken a rule prohibiting peers from providing “parliamentary services” in exchange for money, even though the peer insisted his only responsibility had been to ensure the firm’s contacts with the department “were conducted properly” and that he had been hired to advise them because of his prior experience rather than his seat in the Lords.
The Lords Conduct Committee rejected Lord Geidt’s appeal against the ruling, stating that even though the peer “sought at all times to behave honorably and to comply with the rules,” he had nonetheless broken them.
