Standards and Privileges Committee

The Standards and Privileges Committee of the United Kingdom House of Commons was established in 1995 to replace the earlier Committee of Privileges. Ten Members of Parliament sit to make recommendations to the House on complaints of breach of Parliamentary privilege. It was itself replaced on 7 January 2013, when it was split into the Committee on Standards and the Committee of Privileges.

The Committee was appointed by the House of Commons to oversee the work of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. It examined the arrangements for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Interests and considered specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests and any matter relating to the conduct of Members, including specific complaints in relation to alleged breaches in the Code of Conduct which were drawn to the Committee's attention by the Commissioner.

Membership

As of 12 December 2012, the members of the committee were as follows:

Member		Party	Constituency
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP (Chair)	Labour	Rother Valley
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Paul Beresford MP	Conservative	Mole Valley
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |	Annette Brooke MP	Liberal Democrat	Mid Dorset and North Poole
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tom Clarke MP	Labour	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Geoffrey Cox MP	Conservative	Torridge and West Devon
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Robert Buckland MP	Conservative	South Swindon
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Christopher Chope MP	Conservative	Christchurch
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Fiona O'Donnell MP	Labour	East Lothian
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Heather Wheeler MP	Conservative	South Derbyshire
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Alan Whitehead MP	Labour	Southampton Test

Source: Standards and Privileges Committee

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons ordered changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
19 October 2010	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Eric Ollerenshaw (Conservative)	Lancaster and Fleetwood	→	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Matthew Hancock (Conservative)	West Suffolk	Hansard
22 November 2010	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Jim Cunningham MP (Labour)	Coventry South	→	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tom Blenkinsop MP (Labour)	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Hansard
7 November 2011	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Tom Blenkinsop MP (Labour)	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	→	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Julie Hilling MP (Labour)	Bolton West	Hansard
12 December 2012	rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Matthew Hancock MP (Conservative)	West Suffolk	→	rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Robert Buckland MP (Conservative)	South Swindon	Hansard
	Oliver Heald MP (Conservative)	North East Hertfordshire	Christopher Chope MP (Conservative)		Christchurch
	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Julie Hilling MP (Labour)	Bolton West	→	bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Fiona O'Donnell MP (Labour)	East Lothian

See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament

External links

• Standards and Privileges committee at the UK Parliament website
• Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives