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The Committee on Standards
and Privileges has agreed to the following Report:
1. On 28 October 1996 the
previous Committee asked the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
"to investigate as a matter of urgency the serious allegations
about the conduct of a number of Members referred to by Madam
Speaker in the House on 14 October".[1]
The Commissioner was at that time already examining certain allegations
made by Mr Al Fayed to the Committee of Privileges referred to
him by an Order of the House of 26 January 1996,[2]
in particular a complaint against the Rt Hon Michael Howard MP.
2. The Committee today received
a memorandum from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
containing his final report on these allegations which relates
to twenty-five Members of the previous Parliament. That report
and the appendices thereto are published in this and two subsequent
volumes.
3. Any person who is the
subject of a complaint has the right to submit a written statement
to the Committee rebutting or challenging any findings of the
Commissioner.[3]
1 First
Special Report, HC (1996-97) 34. The statement by Madam Speaker
is quoted in the first paragraph of the Commissioner's appended
memorandum. Back
2 The
Resolution is set out on page ii. The Commissioner's findings
on the complaint against Mr Howard were published in the previous
Committee's Fourth Report last Session HC (1996-97) 359. Back
3 First
Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, HC (1994-95)
637, page xxii. Back
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