Blair, who is estimated to have earned as much as 15 million dollars since leaving office, did not register the series of companies with the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA), the watchdog set up to vet ex-ministers' appointments to avoid "any suspicion of impropriety", The Guardian reports.
Under the terms of the Ministerial Code, he must seek the advice of the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before taking up any job within two years of leaving office to ensure there is no conflict of interest -- apart from unpaid roles in non-commercial organisations.
Mr David Blunkett resigned as the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after it was revealed that he had taken a directorship in a DNA-testing company called DNA Bioscience, after resigning from his previous Cabinet post, without consulting the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, as the ministerial code of practice stipulates.
It states that after leaving office, former ministers should consult the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments about paid posts they want to take up within two years.
n September 11: Former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens accuses Mr Blunkett of leaking stories against him while Home Secretarynn September 16: He denies abusing his former position as Education Secretary to find out whether his son was caught up in an A-level marking fiasco October 8: He fails to register honorary membership of nightclub Annabel's October 10: New TV channel More4 launches with a satire of the Kimberly Quinn affair titled A Very Social Secretary October 23: News emerges of Mr Blunkett's shares in DNA Biosciences, worth an estimated pounds 300,000October 30: It is revealed he did not consult the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments before taking u p the directorship CAPTION(S): GONE: David Blunkett leaving home this morning before his resignation
Under the Ministerial Code of Conduct former ministers are required to consult the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACBA) over any appointment they take up within two years of leaving office.
