First Special Report
1. The Public Administration Select Committee reported
to the House on Ethics and Standards: Further Report in
its Third Report of Session 2008-09, published 2 January 2009
as HC 43. This followed our earlier Report, Ethics and Standards:
The Regulation of Conduct in Public Life.[1]
The initial Government response to that Report was published on
21 November 2007.[2] In
its response, the Government postponed giving a substantive response
to several of our recommendations, saying that it would give further
consideration to them as part of its work to bring forward legislation
on the Civil Service. With our further Report, we published the
Government's response to the remaining recommendations from our
earlier Report.
2. This Special Report contains the Government's
response to our further Report. This response was received in
two parts: a letter of 3 March 2009 from Tom Watson MP, Parliamentary
Secretary at the Cabinet Office, and a letter of 10 March 2009
from Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, the Prime Minister. Both letters
are published below as Appendices to this Report.
1 Public Administration Select Committee, Fourth Report
of Session 2006-07, Ethics and Standards: The regulation of
Conduct in Public Life, HC 121 Back
2
Public Administration Select Committee, First Special Report of
Session 2007-08, HC 88 Back
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