Would the Minister not agree, especially in respect of what she has said about the public’s view about behaviour of Members of Parliament—and as the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, has also said—that this provision will not reinforce that message until and unless IPSA, when it makes its report about Members’ allowances, does so in such a way that those allowances will no longer contain the type of expenses that are large and bizarre or the ones that are small and petty, which have infuriated the public much more than anything else, and which will not be put right by anything we have done in this Bill or in the near future until that takes place?
Parliamentary Standards Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 16 July 2009.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Parliamentary Standards Bill.
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