'Cash for questions': Parliament's response to the offence that dare not speak its name

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-50

  Doig, Alan ^a  

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EID: 0031617098     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028774     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. A. Raphael, My Learned Friends (W.H. Allen, 1989).
2. See D. Leigh and E. Vulliamy, Sleaze: The Corruption of Parliament (Fourth Estate, 1997), pp. 170-3; and A. Roth, Parliamentary Profiles E-K (Parliamentary Profile Services, 1989).
3. See D. Leigh and E. Vulliamy, Sleaze: The Corruption of Parliament (Fourth Estate, 1997), pp. 170-3; and A. Roth, Parliamentary Profiles E-K (Parliamentary Profile Services, 1989).
4. First Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1997-98, HC 30-I, para. 111.
5. First Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Cm 2850, 1995.
6. Ibid., para. 88.
7. First Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1991-92, HC 326.
8. A. Doig, 'Full Circle or Dead End? What Next for the Select Committee on Members' Interests', Parliamentary Affairs, 1994/2.
9. See A. Doig, Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics (Penguin, 1984).
10. First Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1989-90, HC 135.
11. Third Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1990-91, HC 586 and Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, 1988-89, HC 283, 518, 44.
12. Third Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1990-91, HC 586 and Minutes of Evidence and Appendices, 1988-89, HC 283, 518, 44.
13. First Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1984-85, HC 408.
14. First Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1996-97, HC 88. A further report exonerated Andrew Mitchell, then both a government Whip and a member of the Committee, from allegedly using his position on the latter to obtain information to be used in his position as a Whip and from influencing the Committee. It did, however, propose that Whips should not be appointed to the Committee in the future. (Third Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1996-97, HC 226).
15. First Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1991-92, HC 326.
16. See S. Williams, Conflict of Interest (Gower, 1985), p. 17.
17. M. Mancuso, 'The Ethical Attitudes of MPs', Parliamentary Affairs, 1993/2, p. 181.
18. See A. Doig and J. Wilson, 'Untangling the Threads of Sleaze: The Slide into Nolan', Parliamentary Affairs, 1995/4.
19. First Report, Select Committee on Members' Interests, 1994-95, HC 460.
20. D. Leigh and E. Vulliamy, op. cit., pp. 170-3.
21. See A. Doig, 'The End of Investigative Journalism?', in M. Bromley (ed.), Journalism: A Reader (Routledge, 1997).
22. First Report, Committee of Privileges, 1994-95, HC 351.
23. First Report, Select Committee on Standards in Public Life, 1994-95, HC 637.
24. These were described in detail by the new Select Committee on Standards and Privileges which also dealt with the Code of Conduct, rules on MPs conduct and matters relating to the Register; see Third Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, HC 604, 1995-96.
25. Second Report, Select Committee on Members Interests, 1994-95, HC 706.
26. Second Report, Select Committee on Standards in Public Life, 1994-95, HC 816.
27. Fourth Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1996-97, HC 359.
28. In a number of subsequent reports, including those relating to Roy Thomason, Marjorie Mowlam and William Cash (Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Reports, 1995-96, HC 635, 636, 637), and George Galloway and Kenneth Clarke (Second and Third Reports, 1997-98, HC 179, 180), the Committee on Standards and Privileges briefly agreed Downey's report and added little to his interpretation of the rules and relating to the Conduct of Members (1995-96, HC 604).
29. First Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1997-98, HC 30-I.
30. Memoranda of Evidence, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1997-98, HC 30-IV.
31. First Report, Committee on Standards and Privileges, 1995-96, HC 148.
32. Report, Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1976.
33. 'The Prevention of Corruption: Consolidation and Amendment of the Prevention of Curruption Acts 1889-1916: A Government Statement' (Home Office, 1997).
34. 'Legislating the Criminal Code: Corruption, Law Commission, Consultation Paper No. 145, 1997.