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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:32 am on 12 February 2009.

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Photo of Paul Flynn Paul Flynn Labour, Newport West 11:32, 12 February 2009

When can we have a debate on how we restore the damaged reputation of parliamentarians? If the recent examples of alleged conduct by Members of both Houses are true, and within the rules, then the rules are defective and need to be rewritten. For a start, could we introduce a mandatory register of interests of lobbyists and put in the public domain the locations—not the addresses but the locations—of our main residences?