Parliamentary Standards Of Conduct: Conduct Of Lord Blencathra And Others

EDM number 1006 in 2015-16, proposed by Paul Flynn on 26/01/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Members of Parliament, Standards and Members of the Lords.

That this House believes that the standards of supervision of conduct in Parliament are deteriorating; notes the permissive decisions on cases involving Malcolm Rifkind, Jack Straw, Tim Yeo and Lord Blencathra; welcomes condemnation of the conduct of the three former MPs by independent bodies outside of Parliament; further notes that the Committee that adjudicated on Lord Blencathra was chaired by Lord Sewel, and was presumably informed by his own standards of acceptable behaviour; regrets the conduct of Lord Blencathra; and calls for a thorough re-assessment and reformation of Parliamentary standards bodies to strengthen their impartiality and credibility.

This motion has been signed by a total of 4 MPs.