A conservative MP has sent himself to the standard commissioner after claiming a company that he helped the government to write questions.

George Freeman asked the director of environmental monitoring company GHGSAT “What to ask” when you present questions about the field that operates in the firm, Sunday Times told.

Freeman was earlier advised by a government committee not to advocate the government on behalf of the firm due to his previous role as a science minister.

The Mid Norfoch MP said in a statement to the BBC that he did not believe that he had done anything wrong, while his party said that it would be “unfair” to comment during interrogation.

The Sunday Times reported that Freeman asked the director of the company what he had asked as he had prepared written parliamentary questions to the labor ministers related to space data and emission tracking.

In another email, he allegedly asked if the company could help him get “right right”, which he can “convert into parliamentary language”.

Freeman served as the Minister of Science under both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sankar, and now sits on the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.

He played the role of a consultant in the GHGSAT in April 2024, stating in the MP’s Register that he received a monthly salary of £ 5,000 per month per month before leaving the role in March this year.

After being notified Appointment Watchdog Acoba Regarding the role, it advised him that “the networks of your impact and the network of contacts received in the minister’s office”.

The Watchdog said that the company is “interested in the government’s policy and decisions related to the citizen space sector and emissions”.

It said that Freeman “should not individually involve the UK government on behalf of GHGSAT”, and “You have noted that you have made it clear to the company that you will not advocate the government on its behalf, and it will not be a part of your role”.

Freeman told the BBC that through his roles in Westminster, he would “ask experts for regular technical points and vocabulary”, and said he was “targeted and unauthorized and very concerned about my email” which he had raised with the police.

“During my 15 years in Parliament [and government] I have always understood the need to be transparent in the work I have done with commercial customers and donations and I am always ready to respond to any criticism, “he said.

“I don’t believe that I have done anything wrong, but I am immediately referring to myself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for standards and will accept my decision in the appointed time.”

Liberal Democrats and Labor have called Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to suspend Freeman while he is under investigation.

Helen Whaili, Tory Shadow Work and Pension Secretary, were asked Laura with Kunsberg on Sunday Whether the program should lose the Tory whip, in which she said she was “surprised” from the allegations in the Times report.

But she said that she is “looking at the Parliamentary Commissioner, while she cannot comment any more”.