Filkin

• Furrowed brows at the Crime Reporters' Association over the new rules laid down by Elizabeth Filkin governing relations between police and media.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

For the short, sharp shock was what Elizabeth Filkin, then parliamentary commissioner for standards, delivered to Vaz himself when he appeared before her to answer questions about his unsatisfactory declarations.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

And it's a particularly bitter pill, because the crime hacks need only talk to the lobby hacks to learn how Filkin, the former parliamentary commissioner for standards, had many much tamer encounters with journalists at the time of her inquiries into such as Keith Vaz.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

Wide eyed Filkin would have had a few choice things to say about him.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

It emerged from the inquiry conducted by Elizabeth Filkin.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

Actually, my H2SO4 is directed not so much towards Filkin who is doing his job and “following orders”, and who probably really does help little old ladies to cross the street, but rather to “Die Wanze”, who has a lies and deception “rap sheet” as long as my arm.

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In March 2001, the Filkin report cleared Vaz of nine of the 28 allegations of various financial wrongdoings, but Elizabeth Filkin accused Mr Vaz of blocking her investigation into eighteen of the allegations.

BC bias over coverage Patrick Mercer compared with coverage of Keith Vaz Not a sheep 2007

      Filkin made it clear that she believed that MPs who earned large sums outside the House should disclose their earnings in detail and that there were 'many members of the public who think it should be compulsory'.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

Filkin was an excellent investigator, but lacked political acumen and seemed to have little feeling for the Commons, as she showed when she told a meeting at the Royal Society of Arts: 'There's no doubt some MPs are absent-minded.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

      I endorsed the Commission's decision to give Filkin a three-year contract, on the basis of a four-day week, at £76,576 a year, and the House appointed her without a vote in November 1998.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988