- Prime Minister to decide whether Mr Green will remain in his post as deputy
- Downing Street expect the Cabinet Office inquiry to be back before Thursday
- It was claimed Mr Green made unwanted advances to Tory activist Kate Maltby
Theresa May will this week decide whether to sack Damian Green following claims he touched a young activist’s knee and watched pornography on his Commons computer.
Downing Street aides expect the Cabinet Office inquiry into the First Secretary of State to report back before Parliament rises on Thursday.
The Prime Minister will then decide whether to allow Mr Green to remain in his post as her de facto deputy.
Mr Green has been under investigation for six weeks over disputed claims that he made unwanted advances towards Tory activist Kate Maltby, who is 30 years his junior.
Downing Street aides expect the Cabinet Office inquiry into the First Secretary of State Damian Green to report back before Parliament rises on Thursday
On November 4, Mr Green issued a statement which said: ‘This story is completely untrue and comes from a tainted and untrustworthy source.
‘The police have never suggested to me that improper material was found on my Parliamentary computer, nor did I have a “private” computer as has been claimed.
‘The allegations about the material and computer, now nine years old, are false, disreputable smears.’
It was suggested that Mr Green is likely to be cleared because the alleged incidents did not take place while he was a minister — ruling out a possibility that he breached ministerial code.
Sue Gray, director of ethics and propriety at the Cabinet Office, has questioned him over allegations that police found pornography on his computer during a 2008 raid on his office.
The Prime Minister, pictured with her husband Philip on Saturday, will then decide whether to allow Mr Green remain in his post as her de facto deputy
The Prime Minister is also expected to make a decision on the fate of international trade minister Mark Garnier, who was accused by a former secretary of instructing her to buy sex toys.
Mrs May is also expected to make a decision on the fate of international trade minister Mark Garnier, who was accused by a former secretary of instructing her to buy sex toys.
A spokesman for the First Secretary of State told The Daily Telegraph: ‘It would be inappropriate for Mr Green to comment on these allegations while the Cabinet Office investigation is ongoing; however, from the outset he has been very clear that he never watched or downloaded pornography on the computers seized from his office.
‘He maintains his innocence of these charges and awaits the outcome of the investigation.’