Public Administration - Second 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 11 December 2007.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Scope of the inquiry
2 Summary of recent events
3 Honours and peerages
Scope for patronage
Appointments to the House of Lords
The appointment of working peers
Honours and peerages: a comparison
Conclusions
4 The legal framework
The CPS decision and the 1925 Act
The evidential test for prosecution
An impossible test to pass?
The decision to investigate
Historical and hypothetical prosecutions
Refining the 1925 Act
Potential new offences
Changing the burden of proof
Reforming the general law of corruption
Conclusions
5 Loans and electoral administration
A regulatory failure?
6 House of Lords appointments
House of Lords reform: how we got to
where we are
The House of Lords Appointments Commission
The 2005 draft working peers list
The powers of the Commission
A statutory Appointments Commission
7 An interim House of Lords Reform Bill
Reforming appointments processes
Honours and peerages: breaking the link
An exit route
Limiting party patronage
Setting out the criteria
The role of the statutory Appointments Commission
Internal party practices
Remaining elements of the Bill
8 Concluding thoughts
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex: advice to the Committee from Christopher
Sallon QC
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during
the current Parliament
ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE
13 July 2006
11 October 2007
23 October 2007
25 October 2007
Written Evidence
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