Parliamentary Standards Bill

I am grateful to the Secretary of State, because this is a crucial point. Surely he accepts that it is not necessary to disapply the Bill of Rights in order to deal with expenses and pay, because they are not part of the proceedings of Parliament, and that because it is possible—and not necessarily difficult—to prove bribery or even paid advocacy without making use of proceedings in Parliament, the Bill of Rights need not be disapplied in that instance either.