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Committee on Standards

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  • He has told "all Labour MPs" (not just frontbenchers like the Tories) thay must "abide, not by April but as soon as possible, with the Committee on Standards and Privileges 'opinion that the employment of family members should be declared".

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • Virtually unnoticed by the media, the Committee on Standards in Public Life today issued a press release stating that it was going to sit on its hands for another year before even thinking about taking further action to curb the excesses of our porcine politicos.

    MPs' Pay & Allowances (Nothing To See, Move Along) Patrick Vessey 2008

  • He has told "all Labour MPs" (not just frontbenchers like the Tories) thay must "abide, not by April but as soon as possible, with the Committee on Standards and Privileges 'opinion that the employment of family members should be declared".

    Brown outbids Cameron on sleaze 2008

  • The Committee on Standards in Public life is just another quango created to give retired duffers like Graham a few bob to help them in their dotage.

    Whiter Than White, Sleazier Than Sleaze 2007

  • He was first appointed to the National Skill Standards Board in 1994, and serves as chair of the Board's Committee on Standards, Assessment and Certification Policy.

    Becker And Tucker Named Members Of National Skill Standards ITY National Archives 1999

  • MPs' expenses system risks excluding poor from politics, warns watchdog Sir Christopher Kelly, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA MPs' expenses system, introduced following the 2009 scandal, could exclude poorer people and those with young families from political life, a sleaze watchdog has warned.

    The Guardian World News James Meikle 2011

  • This week he backed a recommendation by Sir Christopher Kelly, head of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, that MPs should be forced to hand over profits from the sale of their second homes.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Sir Alistair Graham, the former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said: 'The credit card proposal is absurd.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • January 11, 2010: The Assembly's Committee on Standards and Privileges begin an official investigation into conduct of Peter and Iris Robinson.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • This week he backed a recommendation by Sir Christopher Kelly, head of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, that MPs should be forced to hand over profits from the sale of their second homes.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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