Standards and Privileges - Sixteenth Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21 October 2008.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Conduct of Mr Mark Hunter
Appendix 1: Memorandum from the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards
Complaint against Mr Mark Hunter
The Complaint
Relevant Provisions of the Code of Conduct
and Guide to the Rules
My Inquiries
Findings of Fact
Conclusions
a) Was a survey of constituents' views
on local NHS services appropriate for funding from the Communications
Allowance?
b) Was Mr Hunter's survey appropriate for
funding from the Communications Allowance?
c) Was the distribution of the survey an
acceptable use of the Communications Allowance?
d) Was it an acceptable use of a publicly
funded survey to refer to it in a party's political newsletter
circulated within the relevant constituency?
e) Was the nature of the reference in Mr
Hunter's newsletter an acceptable use of a publicly funded survey?
f) Overall, did this survey, and the use
to which the results were subsequently put, breach the rules of
the House for the use of the Communications Allowance?
Lessons Learned
Written evidence received by the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards
1. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Ben Jeffreys and Ms Linda Holt, 14 January 2008
2. Mr Mark Hunter MP's NHS Inquiry
3. Liberal Democrats 'Keeping in Touch'
Newsletter, Bramhall North Edition
4. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Mark Hunter, 15 January 2008
5. Letter to the Director of Operations
from the Commissioner, 22 January 2008
6. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, 22 February 2008
7. Letter to the Director of Operations
from the Commissioner, 21 February 2008
8. Extract from Islington News
9. Letter to the Director of Operations
from the Commissioner, 26 February 2008
10. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, 27 March 2008
11. Letter to Mr Mark Hunter from the
Commissioner, 28 March 2008
12. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Mark Hunter, 11 April 2008
13. Agreed Note of Meeting with Mr Mark
Hunter, 20 May 2008
14. Letter to Mr Mark Hunter from the
Department of Finance and Administration, 5 November 2007
15. Extract from letter to the Commissioner
from Mr Ben Jeffreys and Ms Linda Holt, 7 June 2008
16. Extract from letter to Mr Ben Jeffreys
and Ms Linda Holt from the Commissioner, 12 June 2008
17. Extract from letter to Mr Mark Hunter
from the Commissioner, 12 June 2008
18. Extract from letter to the Commissioner
from Mr Mark Hunter MP, 18 June 2008
19. Extract from letter to Mr Mark Hunter
MP from the Commissioner, 19 June 2008
20. Letter to the Director of Operations,
Department of Resources from the Commissioner, 21 May 2008
21. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 12 June 2008
22. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 19 June 2008
23. Letter to the Director of Operations,
Department of Resources from the Commissioner, 24 June 2008
24. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Mark Hunter MP, 2 July 2008
25. Letter to Mr Chris Huhne MP from
the Commissioner, 24 June 2008
26. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Chris Huhne MP, 3 July 2008
27. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 9 July 2008
28. E-mail to Liberal Democrats Official
from the Operations Directorate, 29 June 2007
29. E-mail to Liberal Democrats Official
from the Operations Directorate, 6 July 2007
30. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 17 July 2008
31. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Mark Hunter MP, 1 September 2008
Appendix 2: Letter to the Clerk of the Committee
from Mark Hunter, 6 October 2008
Formal minutes
Reports from the Committee on Standards and
Privileges in the current Parliament
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