"I am writing to you today to offer my apology"
A standards watchdog found Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli breached four parliamentary rules over his registration of interests.
The millionaire failed to include all his roles at a charity, did not register he had a controlling interest in a media company and did not register he was a director of a British Virgin Islands-based firm in time.
The matter is unrelated to questions over Lord Alli’s donations to politicians such as Sir Keir Starmer.
Lords Commissioner for Standards Martin Jelley said the breaches were “minor”.
Over the past 20 years, Lord Alli has donated more than £700,000 to Labour.
Following the discovery of the breaches, he was recommended to write a letter of apology to Baroness Manningham-Buller, the chair of the Lords’ conduct committee.
He wrote in the letter: “I am writing to you today to offer my apology for my breach of conduct by not registering my interests correctly.
“I will endeavour to keep to the Code of Conduct at all times to avoid such circumstances again.”
According to the first breach, Lord Alli should have registered himself as an unremunerated director of The Charlie Parsons Foundation, as well as a trustee.
He and Charlie Parsons set up the charity in 2011 to invest in “new talent, new projects and new business ideas”, mainly in the TV and entertainment industry.
The second breach found Lord Alli removed himself prematurely as a “person with significant control” of Silvergate BP Bidco Limited, the production company that produces the Peter Rabbit television programme.
He also prematurely removed his entry saying he had a “shareholding amounting to a controlling interest” in the company.
The fourth breach was the late registration as an unremunerated director of MAC (BVI) Limited, an offshore British Virgin Islands subsidiary of 450 PLC, an investment firm based in tax haven Jersey Lord Alli had declared he was a chairman for.
Previously, Lord Alli said the omission was an “unintentional error” and he “had not realised” until he was asked by journalists in September 2024.
Lord Alli faced scrutiny over his donations to Labour MPs to cover clothes, holidays and work events.
He has given the Prime Minister over £39,000 in gifts and hospitality over the course of the last parliament.
In 2024, Sir Keir received nearly £19,000 worth of work clothes and several pairs of glasses from Lord Alli.
He was also given £20,000 worth of accommodation, which Sir Keir said was to allow his son to study for his GCSEs in peace.
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