Rishi Sunak has announced that he will appoint a new independent ethics adviser to fill the vacancy left by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
Downing Street announced on Wednesday that the new Prime Minister will soon appoint a new independent ministerial interests adviser.
Lord Geidt, the previous ministerial interests adviser, resigned in June and was not replaced when Boris Johnson resigned.
Ms Truss, during her brief tenure in Downing Street, had not appointed an ethics adviser.
The prime minister’s official spokesman said that the appointment of the new ethics adviser would be “done shortly”.
Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin also confirmed in the Commons that “it is absolutely the prime minister’s intention to appoint an independent adviser”.
Under Mr Johnson’s tenure, two ethics advisers quit within two years.
Veteran civil servant Sir Alex Allan resigned as ethics adviser in November 2020 after Mr Johnson failed to act on a critical report on alleged bullying by then Home Secretary Priti Patel.
His successor, Lord Geidt, resigned in June this year after accusing Mr Johnson of proposing a “deliberate” breach of the ministerial code.