This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Improve transparency of politcians' financial interests
1. Make it a crime to fail to declare interests.
2. Ban voting if they stand to gain financially.
3. Publish contracts for all outside jobs.
4. Make the Register Of Interests a spreadsheet (with company no's) & start regular audits.
5. Replace the Standards Commissioner with an independent body.
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This petition covers both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
This site is jointly owned by the House of Commons and the Government, so we cannot accept petitions about the standards system in the House of Lords.
In addition, we are not sure what some of your requests mean:
In point 4, we are not sure what you mean by "regular audits" of the Register of Members' Interests.
In point 5: the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is already an independent investigator. If you would like the Committee on Standards (which is made up of MPs and lay members) to be replaced by an independent body, you could start a petition asking for that.
You can find out more about the role of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards here:
You can find out more about the Committee on Standards here:
http://www.parliament.uk/standards
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