Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - First Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 20 July 2005.

Contents

Annual Report 2004-05

Foreword

1 Strengthening the Standards System

Review of the Code of Conduct

Review of training strategy

Attitudes to Standards in Public Life

The Draft Corruption Bill and the handling of complaints involving allegations of criminal conduct

Members' Allowances

2 Emphasising Prevention

Advising Members in General

Advising Individual Members

Renewing the Register of Members' Interests

3 Investigating Complaints

Investigating complaints

Members the subject of complaints in 2004-05

Reports to the Committee in 2004-05

Use of the Rectification Procedure

Frivolous and Vexatious Complaints

4 Other Registers

Brief History of the Registers

Members' Staff Register

Journalists' Register

All-Party Groups' Register

Recent changes to the rules on All Party Groups

Overlap between the registers

Access to the registers

Complaints

5 Looking Outwards

Openness and Accountability

Public talks and briefings

Working with others

6 Resourcing the Work

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

7 Conclusion and Forward Look

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

Appendix 2: Description of the Arrangements for Regulating Standards of Conduct in the House of Commons

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Prepared 21 July 2005