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Parliamentary Standards Authority

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

492 c1505-19 

Session

2008-09

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Harman | 492 c1517 (Link to this contribution) That was one of the things that was agreed last time—that there should be publication month by month...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1518 (Link to this contribution) We are, of course, answerable to our constituents for the honesty and integrity with which we repres...

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Peter Bone | 492 c1518 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for her statement and for the leadership that she has shown on this ...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1518 (Link to this contribution) At the meeting that the Speaker convened yesterday, the view of the party leaders was that it would ...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 492 c1518 (Link to this contribution) Just to round off, Members of Parliament are either elected representatives, who are free to work ou...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 492 c1517 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's statement. Does the right hon. and learned Lady agree that if it is really our int...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1517 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has added another principle to the list that I suggest we all adhere to. We must not j...

Adam Price | 492 c1517-8 (Link to this contribution) It is not just the expenses scandal that has tarnished the reputation of this House in what has been...

Speaker | 492 c1518 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are only a few hon. Members left, and I have given a lot of leeway, particularly in thi...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1518-9 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister asked Sir Christopher Kelly to look into that, and he will make his recommendatio...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1515 (Link to this contribution) This is a question for all Members in all constituencies. My hon. Friend has often raised in the Hou...

Bob Spink | 492 c1515 (Link to this contribution) I welcome these long-overdue interim measures, but does the Leader of the House plan to make the Hou...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1515 (Link to this contribution) The Members Estimate Committee has tried to take into account as many circumstances as we possibly c...

Natascha Engel | 492 c1515 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with one of the final points in my right hon. and learned Friend's statement: we hav...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1516 (Link to this contribution) All of us in this country who are democrats want to be sure of two things: that our parliamentary de...

Gregory Campbell | 492 c1516 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your hospitality to me during my time in the House. I thank the Leade...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1515-6 (Link to this contribution) When it comes to second jobs, I very much agree with what the hon. Gentleman says. There are two iss...

Kerry McCarthy | 492 c1517 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Derbyshire (Natascha Eng...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1516 (Link to this contribution) I think that the intention behind the MEC decision was to distinguish between hon. Members who are m...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1513 (Link to this contribution) The responsibility of some existing bodies will change, and the responsibility of some others will b...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 492 c1513 (Link to this contribution) May I say, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends, how much we appreciate the kind...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1513 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it will. I look forward to the participation of the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends on this...

Diane Abbott | 492 c1513-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement made by the Leader of the House. Does she agree that it would be wrong for t...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1514 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that it would be not only fruitless but wrong to seek to apportion blame...

Julia Goldsworthy | 492 c1514 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House spoke of reform of the expenses system as being only one part of trying to r...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1514 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Lady will know, there are already provisions in the Bill to do that, but I am sure that ...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1514 (Link to this contribution) That figure was decided yesterday at the Members Estimate Committee meeting, the Committee on Member...

Clive Efford | 492 c1514 (Link to this contribution) What did the Members Estimate Committee take into consideration when it arrived at the figure of £1,...

Brian Binley | 492 c1514-5 (Link to this contribution) May I pay my own personal tribute to you, Mr. Speaker, for your great personal kindness? I have been...

Stuart Bell | 492 c1510 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's statement. I have been a member of the House of Commons...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1510-1 (Link to this contribution) I know that many Members of the House of Lords themselves want to put the situation on a proper foot...

David Heath | 492 c1508-9 (Link to this contribution) I, too, thank you, Mr. Speaker, for convening the meeting yesterday and for getting some overdue con...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1509-10 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that he, like all Members from all parts of the House, wants to contribute t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 492 c1511 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Lady's statement raises important constitutional and ethical issues, whic...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1508 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we will need to engage with the invaluable experience and information that the Fees O...

Lord Touhig | 492 c1508 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's statement. I also thank you, Mr. Speaker, for taking th...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1507-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for the way he responded to the statement. He suggested that we work in a...

Alan Duncan | 492 c1506-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Leader of the House for her statement. May I also thank you, Mr. Speaker, for convening ...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1512 (Link to this contribution) All of us have felt that it is not right that we should have to vote on our own pay and allowances. ...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1513 (Link to this contribution) The question of conduct within this Chamber will remain a matter for the Speaker, and I am sure that...

Tony Wright | 492 c1513 (Link to this contribution) Sometimes it takes a big crisis to produce a big response. We have certainly had a big crisis, and I...

Kevin Barron | 492 c1511 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's statement. May I move on to the Standards and Privilege...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1511 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has appointed Sir Philip Mawer to be independent in the reviewing of adherence to...

Angus Robertson | 492 c1511-2 (Link to this contribution) May I start by saying that you, Mr. Speaker, have always been extremely fair to the Scottish, Welsh ...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1511 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting suggestion, which my right hon. Friend could make as part of the consultation...

Dennis Skinner | 492 c1512 (Link to this contribution) Does this statement mean that from here on in, Members of Parliament will not take part in votes to ...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1512 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, I think that even more transparency and openness apply to our system than at the moment o...

Jim Sheridan | 492 c1516 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's statement. She was right to remind all of us that we ha...

Baroness Harman | 492 c1505-6 (Link to this contribution) Statement : May I strongly identify myself with the comments of tribute to you, Mr. Speaker, that th...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 492 c1512-3 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House agree that although profound reform is necessary, a sovereign Parliamen...

Subjects

Complaints Codes of practice Audit Conduct Allowances Cohabitation Committee on Standards in Public Life Housing House of Lords House of Commons Furniture Members Peers Married people National Audit Office Regulation Repayments Second homes House of Commons Members Estimate Committee Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

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