Committee holds propriety and peerages evidence session
18 March 2010 (updated on 22 April 2010)
The Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) holds a one-off evidence session on propriety and peerages. Watch live from 10.15am.
Witnesses
- Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde
- Sir Hayden Phillips GCB
Dr Tony Wright MP, PASC Chair, said:
"I announced last week [4 March] that the Committee would be holding a one-off evidence session on propriety and peerages, to explore the process through which Michael Ashcroft’s undertaking of 23 March 2000 to take up 'permanent residence' in the UK as a condition for his introduction into the House of Lords came to be interpreted in subsequent dialogue with the Government as 'long-term residence', with likely consequent tax implications."