Bankruptcy Of Councillor Hettie Peters

EDM number 1211 in 1997-98, proposed by Brian Sedgemore on 07/04/1998.

That this House regrets that Liberal Democrat Councillor Hettie Peters recently lied when she claimed that she had resigned from Hackney Council due to ill health; notes that Councillor Peters was disqualified from being a councillor at 12.05 pm on 17 December 1997 when she was declared bankrupt on a petition from Windsor Life Assurance Company Limited for a judgement debt for rent arrears and breach of covenant; notes that under section 92 of the Local Government Act 1972 it is a criminal offence for a disqualified person to attend council meetings as a councillor; condemns Ms Peters for unlawfully attending three council meetings, three meetings of the Policy and Resources Committee and two meetings of the Social Services Committee when not a councillor and regrets that she was given access to confidential papers; deplores the fact that Ms Peters unlawfully accepted expenses in the form of the basic allowance and that the Council unlawfully paid out these expenses for January and February; calls on the Chief Executive, Tony Elliston, to make a report as monitoring officer and to seek to recover the money of council tax payers unlawfully paid out; and is concerned that Ms Peters believes that if she can get discharged from bankruptcy she would be a fit person to stand again in local elections.

This motion has been signed by a total of 3 MPs.