Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards - Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 July 2008.

Contents

Foreword

1  The standards system

Introduction of the Communications Allowance

Changes to the regulations on the use of dining facilities

Registration of employment of Members' family

2  Advice, prevention and the dissemination of information

Advising Members and others

Relations with the Media

Dealing with the general public

3  Complaints

The Commissioner's remit

Complaints received in 2007-08

Members subject of complaint

Dealing with complaints

Frivolous and vexatious complaints

Complaints dismissed after preliminary inquiry

Complaints subject of further investigation

Use of the rectification procedure

Reports to the Committee in 2007-08

Trends 2002-2008

4  Registers of interests for Members, Members' Secretaries and Research Assistants, Journalists, and All-Party Groups

Introduction

Register of Members' Interests

Complaints relating to the Register of Members' Interests

Register of Interests of Members' Secretaries and Research Assistants

Register of Journalists

Register of All-Party Groups

Complaints relating to Registers of Members' Staff, Journalists and All-Party Groups

Recent developments concerning the Registers of Members' Staff, Journalists and All-Party Groups

5  Looking outwards

6  Resourcing the work

7  Review and forward look

Appendix 1: Standing Orders Nos 149 & 150, as amended by the House on 13 July 2005

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

Appendix 3: Registers of interests for Members' Secretaries and Research Assistants, Journalists, and All-Party Groups

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Prepared 17 July 2008