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Committee for Privileges and Conduct
The conduct of Baroness Tonge

7th Report of Session 2016-17 - ordered to be printed 15 March 2017 - HL Paper 142

Contents

Report from the Committee for Privileges and Conduct

Annex 1: Report from the Sub-Committee on Lords’ Conduct

Annex 2: Report from the Commissioner for Standards

Summary of the complaint and investigation

Launch of Balfour Apology Campaign on 25 October 2016

Alleged failure to act on personal honour: relevant definitions

The Code of Conduct and personal honour

Consideration of alleged failure to act on personal honour

Finding on alleged failure to act on personal honour

Alleged breach of rules on filming and photography: background

Consideration of alleged breach of rules on filming and photography

Finding on alleged breach of rules on filming and photography

Event on 14 December 2016

Alleged breach of banqueting rules and alleged failure to act on personal honour: background

Consideration of alleged breach of banqueting rules and alleged failure to act on personal honour

Finding on alleged breach of banqueting rules and alleged failure to act on personal honour

Summary of findings

Appendix A: Transcript of the meeting chaired by Baroness Tonge in the House of Lords to launch the Balfour Apology Campaign, 25 October 2016

Appendix B: Letter from Mark Regev, Ambassador of Israel to the Court of St James’s, to the Commissioner for Standards, 27 October 2016

Appendix C: Letter from Karen Elizabeth Leon to the Commissioner for Standards, 31 October 2016

Appendix D: Letter from the Commissioner for Standards to Baroness Tonge, 8 November 2016

Appendix E: Letter from Baroness Tonge to the Commissioner for Standards, 21 November 2016

Appendix F: Letter from Lord Beecham, Lord Carlile of Berriew, Baroness Deech, Lord Mitchell, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill and Lord Stunell to the Commissioner for Standards, 17 November 2016

Appendix G: Letter from the Commissioner for Standards to Lord Beecham, Baroness Deech, Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Mitchell, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill and Lord Stunell, 23 November 2016

Appendix H: Email from Lord Beecham to the Commissioner for Standards, 24 November 2016

Appendix I: Email from Lord Palmer of Childs Hill to the Commissioner for Standards, 27 November 2016

Appendix J: Letter from the Commissioner for Standards to Baroness Tonge, 25 November 2016

Appendix K: Letter from Baroness Tonge to the Commissioner for Standards, 30 November 2016

Appendix L: Transcript of the Commissioner for Standards’ interview with Baroness Tonge, 12 December 2016

Appendix M: Transcript of the Commissioner for Standards’ interview with Baroness Tonge, 12 December 2016

Appendix N: Statement by Black Rod to the Commissioner for Standards, 4 November 2016

Appendix O: Letter from Jonathan Hoffman to the Commissioner for Standards, 16 December 2016

Appendix P: Letter from the Commissioner for Standards to Baroness Tonge, 5 January 2017

Appendix Q: Email from Baroness Tonge to the Commissioner for Standards, 8 January 2017

Appendix R: Email from Lord Warner to the Commissioner for Standards, 15 January 2017

Annex 3: Letter from Baroness Tonge to Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, chairman of the Sub-Committee on Lords’ Conduct, 26 February 2017



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