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Parliamentary Standards Bill

I am a member of the Standards and Privileges Committee, and we have always transacted our business in complete confidentiality. That will not be the case if we are subject to judicial review; all our papers and dealings and all the matters that we transact will become public. Would anybody wish to be on a Committee dealing with such matters if those things were subject to outside scrutiny by the courts? I doubt it. The change will definitely hamper the Committee's business.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
495 c337 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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