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The United Kingdom has declared all earnings, payments, gifts, benefits, properties, lands and foreign travellings of all the officials including the prime minister in its latest published Register of Members’ Financial Interest report.
The official report is updated on a monthly basis and covers a wide range of interests gained by the MPs and is made public so that nothing remains secret.
Apart from the Great Britain, the officials and government representatives of Scandinavian countries also make public declaration of each gift or hospitality actions by the foreign countries on annual or monthly basis.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in the latest ‘Register of Members’ Financial Interests’ publicised on September 20, declared ownership of three new properties, one donation, two payments received as salaries and an amount of over £6,000 earned as royalties from books already written apart from the gifts given to him.
According to the latest guidelines for the government offices and officials in Sweden, the gifts exceeding a value equivalent to 300-400 Swedish kronor should not be kept by the receiving official but must be handed into the ministry’s official gifts repository.—Agencies
