Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - Annual Report 2003-04

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 5 July 2004.

CONTENTS

Foreword

1 Strengthening the standards system

Response to the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life

Frivolous or vexatious complaints

Draft Corruption Bill

Pay for select committee chairmen

2 Emphasising prevention

Written guidance on standards matters

Working with other agencies

Advising individual Members

Renewing the Register

3 Investigating complaints

Sifting complaints

The recording of complaints

Complaints in 2003-04

Rectification procedure

Reports to the Committee in 2003-04

Media policy

4 Other registers

Brief history of the registers

Members' Staff Register

Journalists' Register

All-Party Groups' Register

Overlap between the registers

Access to the registers

Complaints

5 Resourcing the work

Cost of the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards 2001-02 to 2004-05

6 Conclusion and forward look

Appendix 1: Standing Orders Nos 149 & 150, as revised by the House on 26 June 2003

Appendix 2: Frivolous or vexatious complaints

Appendix 3: Avoidance of conflict of interest: Guidance for chairmen and members of select committees

Appendix 4: Description of the arrangements for regulating standards of conduct in the House of Commons

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Prepared 6 July 2004