Standards and Privileges - Sixth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 January 2006.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Report
Mr Stephen Byers (Matter referred on 19 October
2005)
II. Background to the Referral
III. Government work on possible alternatives
to Railtrack plc
Before the 2001 General Election
After the 2001 General Election
IV. The Issues
The Case against Mr Byers
Mr Byers' Explanation
Checking of the transcript
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix 1: Memorandum from the Clerk
of the House [Byers.5]
ANNEX: Extract From The Judgment Given
In The Chancery Division Of The High Court Of Justice In The Case
Of Weir And Others V The Secretary Of State For Transport And
Others Before Mr Justice Lindsay
Appendix 2: Memorandum from Mr Alan Duncan
MP [Byers.6]
Appendix 3: Memorandum from Mrs Gwyneth
Dunwoody MP [Byers.7]
Appendix 4: Memorandum from Chris Grayling
MP [Byers.8]
Appendix 5: Memoranda from Mr Stephen
Byers MP
Submission to the Committee on Standards
and Privileges [Byers.9]
Letter to the Chairman of the Committee from
Mr Stephen Byers MP, 18 January 2006 [Byers.29]
Appendix 6: Memorandum from Tom Winsor
[Byers.23]
ANNEX: Article In The Financial Times
By Julia Jowit, 25 June 2001, Entitled "Watchdog Warns Byers
That Railtrack Management Is 'Barrier To Improvement'" [Enclosure
4 To Byers.23]
Appendix 7: Memoranda from the Department
for Transport
1. Letter to the Clerk from the Department
for Transport, 7 November 2005 [Byers.11]
2. Memorandum from the Department
for Transport to the Committee on Standards and Privileges, 7
November 2005 [Byers.11]
3. Chronology of submissions and
events relating to options for Railtrack 7 June to 25 July 2001
4. Letter to the Department for
Transport from the Clerk, 17 November 2005 [Byers.14]
5. Letter to the Clerk from the
Department for Transport, 23 November 2005 [Byers.13]
6. Letter to the Clerk from the
Department for Transport, 25 November 2005 [Byers.16]
7. Letter to the Clerk from the
Department for Transport, 2 December 2005 [Byers.20]
8. Letter to the Clerk from David
Rowlands, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport, 5 December
2005 [Byers.24]
9. Letter to the Chairman from
David Rowlands, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport,
9 December 2005 [Byers.25]
10. Letter to the Clerk from the
Department for Transport, 13 December 2005 [Byers.26]
11. Letter to the Clerk from the
Department for Transport, 9 January 2006 [Byers.27]
12. Letter to the Clerk from David
Rowlands CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport, 19
January 2006 [Byers.30]
Witnesses
Unpublished memoranda
Formal minutes
Reports from the Committee on Standards
and Privileges in the current Parliament
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
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