Sentences with phrase «parliamentary standards authority»
The former Welsh and work and pensions secretary did not face a police investigation because of his late declaration of donations to his deputy leadership campaign when Gordon Brown came to power, but he was found guilty of «serious» failings by the parliamentary standards authority.
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Giving evidence to MPs on the parliamentary commission on banking standards today, Martin Wheatley — the chief executive designate of the Financial Conduct Authority — said «our culture went away from being about service to consumers».
Sir Ian Kennedy, chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, told The Sunday Times (#) that Parliament should end the system under which a cross-party committee of MPs is able to overrule the findings of an investigation by the standards commissioner.
«I told the public, I told you in the media, I told the relevant authorities - the parliamentary commissioner for standards and also the Electoral Commission.»
Stretching back to the Neil Hamilton cash for questions saga, the committee on standards in public life was established in 1994 and then in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) was painfully born.
«I think that the contract of employment is a standard one which is supplied by Ipsa (the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority), but essentially by the House.