Strengthening Standards in Public Life — Ban MPs Working as a Paid Parliamentary Strategist, Adviser or Consultant — 17 Nov 2021 at 18:41

The majority of MPs voted not to ban MPs from paid work as a Parliamentary strategist, adviser or consultant.

The text rejected in this vote was:

• That this House:
• (1) endorses the 2018 recommendation from the Committee on Standards in Public Life that Members should be banned from any paid work to provide services as a Parliamentary strategist, adviser or consultant;
• (2) instructs the Committee on Standards to draw up proposals to implement this and to report by 31 January 2022; and
• (3) orders that on the expiry of fifteen sitting days from the date on which the Committee makes its report to the House, if no debate has been held on a substantive motion relating to recommendations in that report, the Speaker shall give precedence to a substantive motion on the recommendations in that report tabled thereafter by any Member.

The motion rejected in this vote was:

• That the original words stand part of the Question.

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