Standards and Privileges Committee

The Standards and Privileges Committee of the United Kingdom House of Commons was established in 1995 to replace the earlier Committee of Privileges. Ten Members of Parliament sit to make recommendations to the House on complaints of breach of Parliamentary privilege. It was itself replaced on 7 January 2013, when it was split into the Committee on Standards and the Committee of Privileges.^[1]

The Committee was appointed by the House of Commons to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. It examined the arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Interests and considered specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests and any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in the Code of Conduct which were drawn to the Committee's attention by the Commissioner.

On 9 December 2010 Geoff Hoon along with Stephen Byers and Richard Caborn were banned from entering the Parliamentary Estate; the Committee banned Hoon for five years as his was the most serious breach, whilst Byers received two years and Caborn six months.^[2] This was due to the 2010 cash for influence scandal.

Membership

As of 12 December 2012, the members of the committee were as follows:

	Party	Constituency
Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP (Chair)	Labour	Rother Valley
Sir Paul Beresford MP	Conservative	Mole Valley
Annette Brooke MP	Liberal Democrat	Mid Dorset and North Poole
Tom Clarke MP	Labour	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Geoffrey Cox MP	Conservative	Torridge and West Devon
Robert Buckland MP	Conservative	South Swindon
Christopher Chope MP	Conservative	Christchurch
Fiona O'Donnell MP	Labour	East Lothian
Heather Wheeler MP	Conservative	South Derbyshire
Alan Whitehead MP	Labour	Southampton Test

Source: Standards and Privileges Committee

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons ordered changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below.

Date		Constituency	→		Constituency	Source
19 October 2010	Eric Ollerenshaw (Conservative)	Lancaster and Fleetwood	→	Matthew Hancock (Conservative)	West Suffolk	Hansard
22 November 2010	Jim Cunningham MP (Labour)	Coventry South	→	Tom Blenkinsop MP (Labour)	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Hansard
7 November 2011	Tom Blenkinsop MP (Labour)	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	→	Julie Hilling MP (Labour)	Bolton West	Hansard
12 December 2012	Matthew Hancock MP (Conservative)	West Suffolk	→	Robert Buckland MP (Conservative)	South Swindon	Hansard
	Oliver Heald MP (Conservative)	North East Hertfordshire	→	Christopher Chope MP (Conservative)	Christchurch
	Julie Hilling MP (Labour)	Bolton West	→	Fiona O'Donnell MP (Labour)	East Lothian

References

↑ "Standards Committee". parliament.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
↑ "Three Former MPs Face Parliamentary Ban".

External links

Standards and Privileges committee at the UK Parliament website

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Standards and Privileges Committee

Membership

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References

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