Another parliamentarian is under Integrity Commission investigation for illicit enrichment or false information.
According to the Annual report from the Commission the number of parliamentarians referred for investigation over potential illicit enrichment or false information has climbed by one to 15.
The information is contained in the report’s Matrix of Statutory Declarations’ Examination and Outcomes which tracks the Commission’s work from April 2018 to the end of March.
It shows that 14 Members of the House of Representatives have now been referred for investigation for potential illicit enrichment and-or false information.
That’s one more than the 13 recorded in last year’s report.
The number of Senators in that category is unchanged, at one.
This takes the combined parliamentary total to 15, up from 14.
The same category has widened across the rest of the public sector.
In all, 70 public officials are now flagged for investigation over potential illicit enrichment or false information, up from 65 a year earlier.
Of that 70, 15 are MPs, one is a Councillor, one is the head of a public entity and two more are from the wider group of other public officials.
The Commission’s separate referrals for prosecution for officials who fail to provide information are unchanged for the parliamentary group, at 10 Members of the House and three Senators.
The report says the Commission examined 8,529 statutory declarations during the year, and certified 1,731.
Over its last two reporting periods combined, it says it has completed more than 20,000 examinations.