I support the points that my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Melton (Alan Duncan) made. As a member of the Committee on Standards on Public Life, I get correspondence about matters with which the Committee on Standards and Privileges is dealing because of the public's confusion about those two bodies. To add another body with the word "standards" in the title is just asking for trouble. I just suggest that the Secretary of State think that over and perhaps come up with a name that refers to payments or something different. The whole purpose of the exercise is supposed to be to try to make the thing more transparent and understandable, but it is actually making it more confusing.
Parliamentary Standards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Oliver Heald
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 30 June 2009.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Parliamentary Standards Bill.
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