House of Commons - Lay membership of the Committee on Standards and Privileges

Procedure Committee - Sixth Report
Lay membership of the Committee on Standards and Privileges

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 26 October 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction and background

2 Principle

The CSPL recommendation

Rationale for adding lay members to the Committee

Endorsement of the principle by the House

Lay members and privilege matters before the Committee

3 Precedents

Introduction

Participation of non-members in select committee meetings

Participation of non-members in decision-making and voting in select committees

Overseas precedents

4 Privilege

What is privilege and why it matters to select committees

Issues and arguments

Disciplinary bodies in other professions

Possible solutions

5 Practicalities

Number of lay members

Quorum

Chair of the Committee

Relationship between the Committee on Privileges and the Committee on Standards

Speaker's Committee on the IPSA

6 Appointments process

Qualities of candidates

Recruitment process

Appointment and dismissal

Terms of office

Confidentiality of proceedings

7 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix: Lay members of committees: experience in other Commonwealth countries

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Written Evidence