Communities and Local Government: Code of Conduct
May I return to the theme I was developing earlier, in what was described as a very long intervention- I shall try to be briefer this time? The commissioner suggests that some of the new rules might be split. We used to have rule 2, stating that the rules do not
“seek to regulate what Members do in their purely private and personal lives”,
whereas rule 16 said Members must not bring the House into disrepute, which was, in a sense, a mop-up rule. Matters are set out in a more coherent way now, but there is no real change.
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