Hc 383 The Standards System In The House Of Commons

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215081445

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HC 383 - The Standards System in the House of Commons by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards Pdf

In January 2013 three lay members became part of a new Committee on Standards. As a result of the lay members' reflections on the experience of their first year in office the Committee on Standards decided to undertake a comprehensive review of the standards system in the House of Commons. There has been a decline in public trust, not just in politics but in other institutions. The expenses scandal played a significant part in reducing public trust, and the Committee do not underestimate its impact. It still has an immense effect on how MPs' activities are seen and reported. The majority of MPs carry out their tasks without any questions raised about the propriety of their actions. The growth in constituency case work suggests that while the public may distrust MPs in general, in practice they are willing to bring individual MPs their problems. MPs have a complex and multi-faceted role, and one of the lessons of the last year has been that there is little understanding of what MPs do, the rules governing their conduct, and the ways in which those rules are enforced. This Report is intended to increase that understanding, as well as to propose improvements. This report sets out the range of functions that an MP undertakes. It describes the various aspects of MPs' work and the limitations of their role. It acknowledges MPs need the freedom to decide their priorities within a potentially infinite workload. The Committee believes self-regulation, with external input, is the appropriate system.

Author : Alexander Horne,Gavin Drewry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509908721

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Parliament and the Law by Alexander Horne,Gavin Drewry Pdf

Parliament and the Law (Second Edition) is an edited collection of essays, supported by the UK's Study of Parliament Group, including contributions by leading constitutional lawyers, political scientists and parliamentary officials. It provides a wide-ranging overview of the ways in which the law applies to, and impacts upon, the UK Parliament, and it considers how recent changes to the UK's constitutional arrangements have affected Parliament as an institution. It includes authoritative discussion of a number of issues of topical concern, such as: the operation of parliamentary privilege, the powers of Parliament's select committees, parliamentary scrutiny, devolution, English Votes for English Laws, Members' conduct and the governance of both Houses. It also contains chapters on financial scrutiny, parliamentary sovereignty, Parliament and human rights, and the administration of justice. Aimed mainly at legal academics, practitioners, and political scientists, it will also be of interest to anyone who is curious about the many fascinating ways in which the law interacts with and influences the work, the constitutional status and the procedural arrangements of the Westminster Parliament.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215525434

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Premature Disclosure of Select Committee Papers by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

This report, (HCP 1212, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215525437), contains conclusions on two cases referred to the Committee on Standards and Privileges by other committees of the House. The first case involved the unauthorised disclosure of two papers prepared for the European Scrutiny Committee by its legal adviser on the mandate for the inter-governmental conference which led to the Lisbon Treaty, and appeared in an article in the Daily Telegraph on 26 June 2007. The second involved the unauthorised disclosure of parts of a draft report prepared for the Home Affairs Committee on the Government's counter terrorism proposals which appeared in the Financial Times on 5 December 2007. The Standards Committee accepts the view that the disclosure of such internal committee papers constituted a substantial interference in their work.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215525256

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Use of Pre-paid Envelopes and Official Stationery by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

Use of pre-paid envelopes and official Stationery : Nineteenth report of session 2007-08, report and appendix, together with formal Minutes

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : 9780215087928

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HC 472 - Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Mr Jack Straw by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee Pdf

An allegation of rape was made against Lord Brittan to South Yorkshire Police in November 2012. The incident was alleged to have occurred in 1967 in London. A police investigation then took place, involving a process of advice being sought at relevant points from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and a file of evidence first being submitted to the CPS in June 2014. However the CPS decided that the file submitted by the MPS did not meet the appropriate evidential criteria. Lord Brittan was suffering from cancer at the time of the investigation. He died in January 2015 without being informed the he had been cleared of any wrongdoing in regard to this case. Although the MPS had concluded that "there was not a strong case" against Lord Brittan, it had requested that the CPS review its decision and to consider changing the Director's Guidance to allow "significant public interest" to be taken into account when coming to decisions about whether a case should be referred to the CPS, where the evidential threshold is not satisfied or the case is borderline. The DPP expressed reluctance to consider making any change to the current criteria, because she believed that the requirement to meet the evidence threshold had to remain the first criterion for coming to a decision. The Committee agreed with this. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has requested that another police force review its investigation into the Lord Brittan case to ensure that it was "thorough, properly conducted and to identify good practice". This report explores the implications of the Commissioner's action points in detail.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215520521

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Conduct of Mr George Osborne by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards submitted a memorandum on his investigation of a complaint that Mr George Osborne failed to register certain donations in the Register of Members' Interests. These donations were made to the Conservative Party and used by the Party to support the cost of running his office as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. It became clear that many other members of the Shadow Cabinet used funds in this way, so this complaint has ramifications well beyond one entry in the Register. Mr Osborne believes that financial support received through a party to support work as a Shadow Minister does not constitute 'financial or material support as a Member of Parliament'. The Commissioner finds that there is no logical reason to differentiate between the different capacities in which MPs receive financial support, and upholds the complaint, but does not believe Mr Osborne should be criticised as the area was in need of clarification. He makes five recommendations which should regularise the position, and members of the Shadow Cabinet are given four weeks from publication of this report to amend their Register entries. The Committee agrees with the Commissioner's findings and recommendations.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215524101

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Conduct of Mr Mark Hunter by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

This report responds to a complaint arising from a survey relating to local National Health Service (NHS) services in Mr Hunter's constituency of Cheadle and carried out by Mr Hunter and funded from his Communications Allowance (CA). There were three elements to the complaint: that the survey contained material that should not have been included in a CA funded survey; that it should not have been circulated outside the constituency; and that publicity for the survey in a newsletter funded and circulated by his local party in one part of his constituency amounted to exploitation of the survey for party political purposes. The Committee agree with the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards that the survey included an incorrect imprint which suggested that it was party rather parliamentary in origin and that the CA should not have been used to distribute the survey outside Mr Hunter's constituency. They also agreed that, by themselves, the breaches were not so serious as to cause us to conclude that his survey should not have been funded from the CA

Author : Barry Sheerman,Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0215529685

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HC 111-II House of Commons - Children, Schools and Families Committee: Looked-after Children, Volume II by Barry Sheerman,Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on the Draft Deregulation Bill
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0108551679

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House of Lords - House of Commons - Joint Committee on the Draft Deregulation Bill: Deregulation Bill - HL 101 - HC 925 by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on the Draft Deregulation Bill Pdf

Having looked at the Draft Deregulation Bill in some detail and taken evidence from a wide range of witnesses, the Committee does not think it is appropriate for Ministers to be given power to scrap legislation by order on the subjective test that it is 'no longer of practical use'. There is a risk that to give Ministers that power would undermine effective Parliamentary scrutiny. It was also felt unnecessary when the Law Commissions currently have the power to put forward outdated Bills for abolition anyway. The Law Commissions will need to make changes to their working practices in order to produce more frequent and more responsive Statute Law (Repeals) Bills. The Government should work with the Law Commissions to streamline the process for bringing forward these Bills. As for the duty on regulators to have regard to economic growth, whilst this is supported in principle, it is important that it is not used by Government to undermine the independence of regulators in the way it is implemented. It might be helpful if that provision were explicitly included in the Bill

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215514335

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Employment of family members through the staffing allowance by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

Employment of family members through the staffing Allowance : Seventh report of session 2007-08, report and appendices, together with formal Minutes

Author : Neville Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509906727

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Education, Law and Diversity by Neville Harris Pdf

This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected. It spans wide-ranging areas of school provision, including: types of school (including faith schools), the school curriculum, choice of school, out-of-school settings, and duties towards children with special needs and disabilities. It gives extensive coverage to children's rights in the context of education and includes considerable new material on issues including relationships and sex education, exclusion from school, home education, equal access, counter-extremism and academisation. The new edition also retains and updates areas of debate in the book, such as those concerned with multiculturalism and the position of religion in schools. It continues to focus on England but also makes reference to other jurisdictions within the UK and internationally. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the legal and related policy issues surrounding children's education today.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112085036405

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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Justice Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780215084262

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HC 309 - Prisons: Planning and Policies by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Justice Committee Pdf

This is the Committee's first major inquiry on prisons planning and policies in this Parliament, and it has provided an opportunity to consider the impact of the Government's programme of reforms and efficiency savings across the prison estate. These policies have been implemented alongside the creation of working prisons and resettlement prisons, designed to improve the effectiveness of the prison estate in increasing employability and reducing re-offending, as well as the tightening of operational policies on earned privileges and temporary release in order to improve their public credibility. They have also come at a time when the total prison population has returned to very high levels. The Committee expresses concern that despite the Government's efforts to supply sufficient prison places to meet demand, the proportion of prisons that are overcrowded is growing, and the proportion of prisoners held in crowded conditions remains at almost a quarter, with consequent effects on the ability to maintain constructive regimes. The Committee welcomes the reduction which has taken place in the cost of a prison place, although the Committee notes that it remains high, and is unlikely to fall significantly while the pressures on estate capacity remain at current levels

Author : Great Britain. Stationery Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCAL:B4659187

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Catalogues and Indexes of British Government Publications, 1920-1970: Annual catalogues of British government publications 1961-1970 by Great Britain. Stationery Office Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128950610

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Journals of the House of Lords by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Pdf