The Scott inquiry, constitutional conventions and accountability in British government

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 239-252

  Radcliffe, James ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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3. Cm 2850, Standards in Public Life: First Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, (HMSO, London, 1995).
4. For other views on the perceived decline in public standards see Ridley, F.F. "Feet of Clay : threats to the temples of democracy", Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 48 No. 4, pp. 617-31, (1995);
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7. Scott, Sir R. Report of the Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goads to Iraq and Related Prosecutions, (HMSO, London, 1996). All references from the Scott Report are contained in the text as paragraph numbers from the report.
8. For an account of the structure of the British government's regulation of the arms trade see Phythian, M. & Little, W. "Administering Britain's Arms Trade" Public Administration, Vol. 71 No. 3, 1993, pp. 259-78.
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11. Quoted in The Guardian Newspaper, 16th February 1996.
12. House of Commons, Vol. 272, No. 57 (26th Feb. 1996, Col. 590, Hansard, HMSO, London).
13. House of Lords, Vol. 569, No. 49 (26th Feb. 1996, col. 1271, Hansard, HMSO, London).
14. HC313, "Ministerial Accountability and Responsibility" Public Services Committee, 2nd Report, Session 1995-96 (HMSO, London) p. 1xxx.
15. House of Commons, Vol. 272, No. 57 (26th Feb. 1996, Cols 593-602, Hansard, HMSO, London).
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19. Ibid.
20. See also Pythian, M. & Little, W. "Parliament and Arms Sales: lessons of the Matrix Churchill Affair", Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 46 No. 3 (1993) pp. 293-308.