Committee on Standards in Public Life: Reinforcing Standards
R6-8
Published January 2000
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
The House of Commons should take measures in relation to the Committee on Standards and Privileges, with a view: (a) to ensuring that a substantial proportion of its members are senior MPs, and (b) to exempting the Committee from the convention that its chairman should be drawn from the Government benches.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Reinforcing Standards, January 2000