Clause 2
Planning
6:45 pm
Jacqui Lait (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Beckenham, Conservative)
The Minister will be pleased to know that they are probing amendments. It is ironic that, at questions in the House this afternoon, the matter of the Greater London authority’s code of conduct arose, because the query behind the amendment is why the commission is writing its own code of conduct and it is not being written by the Secretary of State. What came out of today’s parliamentary questions in the reference to the GLA was that the Assembly wrote their own code of conduct. The question that was asked was, “Why is there no code of conduct for political advisers?”