| Job Description | 1. The principal duties
of the Commissioner are: |
| - Maintaining and monitoring the operation
of the Register of Members' Interests. |
| - Providing advice on a confidential basis
to individual Members and to the Select Committee on Standards
and Privileges about the interpretation of a Code of Conduct and
about questions of propriety.
- Preparing guidance and providing induction
courses for new Members on matters of conduct, propriety and ethics.
- Monitoring the operation of the Code
of Conduct and, where appropriate, proposing possible modifications
of it to the Committee.
- Receiving and investigating complaints
about the conduct of Members (whether related directly to alleged
breaches of the Code or not) and reporting her findings to the
Committee.
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| Terms and Conditions of Appointment | 2. We recommend that the new appointment should
be for three years on the basis of four days per week, at an annual
salary of £76,576. After the first year, the duties of the
post should be reviewed in order to decide whether this level
of duties remained appropriate. It would be open to the Commissioner
to propose modifications earlier in the light of her own assessment
of the requirements of the post.
As already agreed by the House, the Commissioner
can be removed from office by a substantive Resolution of the
House.
Ms Filkin has indicated that she would
be able to take up the appointment in February 1999.
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| Staffing and Accommodation | 3. The Commissioner will be an Officer
of the House with her own small group of support staff seconded
from the Department of the Clerk of the House. The Commissioner's
Office is located in 7 Millbank. |
