Standards and Privileges Committee - Fifth Report
Mr Brian Binley
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 January 2010.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Mr Brian Binley
The Commissioner's findings
Mr Binley's rental arrangement
Mr Binley's registration of interests
Mr Binley's evidence
The basis for entering into a leasing
arrangement
The time taken to reply to the DFA
The question of where responsibility lies
Mr Binley's conclusion
Conclusions
Mr Binley's request to be present at
our deliberations
The basis for entering into a leasing arrangement
The time taken to reply to the DFA
The question of where responsibility lies
Overall conclusion
Recommendation
Appendix 1: Memorandum from the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards
Complaint against Mr Brian Binley MP
The Complaint
Relevant Provisions of the Code of Conduct
and Rules of the House
My inquiries
Findings of Fact
a. The rental arrangement
b. Registration
Conclusions
a. The rental arrangement
b. Registration
c. Overall conclusions
Written evidence received by the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards
1. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Michael Barnbrook, 17 June 2009
2. Extracts from article in the Daily
Telegraph, 17 June 2009
3. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 22 June 2009
4. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Brian Binley MP, 30 June 2009
5. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP, from
the Assistant Director of Operations, Department of Finance and
Administration, 5 June 2006
6. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 31 October
2008
7. Table of Expenditure on London property
by BCC Marketing Services Ltd
8. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 2 July 2009
9. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Brian Binley MP, 10 July 2009
10. Letter to Department of Finance and
Administration from Mr Brian Binley MP, 22 November 2005
11. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
Assistant Director of Operations, Department of Finance and Administration,
23 March 2006
12. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Financial Director of BCC Marketing Services Ltd, 29 August
2008
13. Letter to the Speaker from Mr Brian
Binley MP, 26 November 2008
14. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Speaker's Secretary, 18 December 2008
15. Letter to the Speaker's Secretary
from Mr Brian Binley MP, 19 January 2009
16. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 13 March
2009
17. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 14 July 2009
18. Letter to the Director of Operations,
Department of Resources, from the Commissioner, 14 July 2009
19. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Brian Binley MP, 24 July 2009
20. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 27 July 2009
21. Extracts from Internal Memorandum
to Department of Resources' staff from the Director of Operations,
Department of Resources, 25 April 2008
22. Letter to the Director of Operations,
Department of Resources, from the Commissioner, 30 July 2009
23. Letter to the Director of Operations,
Department of Resources from the Commissioner, 4 August 2009
24. Letter to the Commissioner from the
Director of Operations, Department of Resources, 10 September
2009
25. Mr Brian Binley MP - Chronology of
Events
26. Note of telephone conversation between
Department of Finance and Administration advice team and Mr Brian
Binley MP, 22 November 2005
27. Note of telephone conversation between
Department of Finance and Administration advice team and Mr Brian
Binley MP, 22 November 2005
28. Extracts from letter to all Members
from the Director of Operations, Department of Finance and Administration,
25 July 2006
29. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 11 September 2009
30. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Brian Binley MP, 15 September 2009
31. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 25 September 2009
32. Statement from Financial Director
of BCC Marketing Services Ltd, 12 October 2009
33. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 29 October 2009
34. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
Financial Director of BCC Marketing Services Ltd, 2 November 2009
35. Agreed note of interview with Mr
Brian Binley MP, 5 November 2009
36. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 11 November 2009
37. Letter to the Commissioner from Mr
Brian Binley MP, 25 November 2009
38. Letter to Mr Brian Binley MP from
the Commissioner, 2 December 2009
Appendix 2: Letter from Mr Brian Binley to
the Clerk of the Committee, enclosing a statement, 30 December
2009
Formal minutes
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