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Parliamentary Standards Bill

I think there may be a clue to the answer. I have to say that the code in the other place was introduced some years after I left so I have no firsthand experience of it. The first resolution in July 1995 was that the House should endorse the principle of a code of conduct. In July 1996 a resolution introduced the code of conduct by approving the third report of the Committee on Standards and Privileges. The ninth report from the Committee on Standards and Privileges provided amendments to the code. The procedure in the other place has always been via the Committee on Standards and Privileges. The committee is asked to look at the code and suggest amendments. If amendments are produced, such as the one put forward on 14 May 2002, we can see that the resolution of the House was: ""the Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules relating to the Conduct of Members … shall be amended as proposed in Annex 2 to the Report"." There is an opportunity for amendments to be introduced under the existing procedure. It therefore seems to me that my noble friend’s amendment seeks to find a way of building that process into the new structure.