Debate on select committee report on Monday, 16 May 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Young of Cookham. The answering member was Helen Jones.

Standards and Privileges

Motion to approve the Committee on Standards and Privileges fifteenth report of session 2010-12 (HC 1023) and to suspend Mr David Laws from the service of the House for a period of seven sitting days. Agreed to on question.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 528 c45-54
Session: 2010-12
Department: Committee on Standards and Privileges; Leader of the House of Commons
Procedure: Members' suspension
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Kevin Barron | 528 c49 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may wish to comment on that further, but I wish to make my comments on behalf of the ...; Helen Jones | 528 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by echoing the thanks of the Leader of the House to the Commissioner for Standards and t...; Lord Field of Birkenhead | 528 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House two questions that arise from the report? First, how does the Comm...; Lord Young of Cookham | 528 c45 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House—""(1) approves the Fifteenth Report of the Committee on Standards and...; Kevin Barron | 528 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) That is true. The commissioner commented on that claim in his memorandum, and it was taken into acco...; Andy Slaughter | 528 c49 (Link to this contribution) The Committee has dealt with the false representation allegations—the appropriateness of the penalty...; Kevin Barron | 528 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) I will pick up a couple of points that my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field) has...; Lord Beamish | 528 c48 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will have seen the volume of appendices to the report, which includes evidence ...; Clive Efford | 528 c53 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham West and Penge (Jim Dowd), I have concerns about the que...; Jim Dowd | 528 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) I accept that, Mr Speaker, and I will abide by your ruling. I asked for your guidance before the deb...; Clive Efford | 528 c54 (Link to this contribution) I hear what my hon. Friend is saying, but if he will forgive me, I do not want to get drawn into the...; Lord Beamish | 528 c54 (Link to this contribution) The report states that Mr Laws stopped claiming when the rules relating to the maximum amount change...; Jim Dowd | 528 c50 (Link to this contribution) The Committee said that the right hon. Member's behaviour had been exemplary since the matter became...; Speaker | 528 c52 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman, the Chair of the Standards and Privileges Committee, made a passing...; Jim Dowd | 528 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) I will not detain the House too long. I realise that we have immensely important business to discuss...; Lord Beamish | 528 c49 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?; Kevin Barron | 528 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) No—I shall just carry on for a few minutes, if my hon. Friend does not mind. The commissioner's rep...; Kevin Barron | 528 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) No, it did not. The repayment was one of the mitigating circumstances. The voluntary payments went ...
Subjects: Conduct Allowances House of Commons Members Laws, David
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