Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:45 pm on 15 May 2006.
It is now some six months since the Minister's colleague replied to a similar debate, and five months since the Government published their discussion paper. When are Ministers going to turn what appear—in principle, at least—to be the good recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Standards Board into practical changes, by means of a statutory instrument on the model codes of conduct?