Lobbying: current arrangements are not enough
...principle on how to deal with lobbyists, lowering the threshold for registering gifts and hospitality from £500 to £140 and introducing a new Code of Conduct for Members’ Staff with...
...principle on how to deal with lobbyists, lowering the threshold for registering gifts and hospitality from £500 to £140 and introducing a new Code of Conduct for Members’ Staff with...
...new MPs, new and explicit codes of conduct, and the extraordinary bravery of individual voices in bringing bad behaviour to light, these scandals recur with unedifying regularity. A scandal breaks,...
...powers vested in elected PCCs. Prior to the arrival of the new ‘unshackled’ elected Commissioners in 2012, this would have been a decision which could only have been made by...
...to an inquiry and recommendations for a wholly different framework to support MPs and protect the taxpayer (MPs’ Expenses and Allowances 2009), including a new independent body to administer expenses...