APPENDIX 2
Letter to the Rt Hon Peter Mandelson MP
from the Chairman of the Committee on
Standards and Privileges
As you know, the Committee on Standards and Privileges
has received a report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for
Standards on the complaints made against you.
The Committee would be grateful if you could respond
in writing to the questions set out in this letter. Your reply
should be received by the Clerk of the Committee by 3.00 pm on
Tuesday 4 May. At its meeting on Tuesday 11 May the Committee
will consider your reply, and it will also decide whether to take
oral evidence from you in private at that meeting. I would therefore
be grateful if you could—
(i) keep the period between 10.30 am and 1.00
pm on Tuesday 11 May free of other commitments;
(ii) arrange to be in or within easy reach of
the House during that period; and
(iii) let the Clerk have a telephone number at
which you could be contacted during that period.
The Committee's questions are as follows:
1. When you completed the application form
for a mortgage from the Britannia Building Society, were you aware
that you should have disclosed the fact that you had a mortgage
on your house in Hartlepool as well as on your flat in London?
2. If so, why did you not do so?
3. If not, when did you realise that you
should have done so?
4. When did you take out the mortgage on
your home in Hartlepool?
5. On what date did you become aware that
your family would not be providing the balance of the purchase
price?
6. Was it before or after you completed
your mortgage application form on 30 August 1996?
7. Was it before or after 15 October 1996?
8. On what date did you first discuss with
Mr Geoffrey Robinson the possibility of your receiving a loan
from him?
9. Was it before or after you completed
your mortgage application form on 30 August 1996?
10. The terms of your loan from Mr Robinson were
set down in writing on 15 October 1996. When did you first reach
agreement with Mr Robinson on them?
11. Were you aware that you ought to have informed
Britannia of a material change in your circumstances?
12. At any time did you discuss with your solicitor
(Mr Wegg-Prosser) his obligation to inform the Britannia of any
material change in your circumstances or any third party loan
towards the purchase price of the property?
13. Did you instruct your solicitor to inform
Britannia of the loan from Mr Robinson once he had settled the
terms of the loan?
14. When did you discover that Britannia had
not been informed about your loan from Mr Robinson?
28 April 1999
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