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Tell us what you think about MPs Using the House of Commons for Private or Commercial Purposes |
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Thursday, 13 October 2005 |
The Guardian Today reported how "David Blunkett broke parliamentary rules by intervening in a planning row using House of Commons headed paper ... The work and pensions secretary wrote to Wandsworth council last month to express concerns about the conversion of a building next to his second home in south London".
The Guardian notes that "Parliamentary rules say the Portcullis motif stationery 'should only be used for appropriate purposes and not when it might wrongly be regarded or represented as carrying the authority of the house when this is not the case'". |
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