§ DECLARATION AND REGISTRATION OF INTERESTS
§ The Committee has given further consideration to the Report of the Sub-Committee appointed, under the chairmanship of Lord Griffiths, "to consider the practice of the House in relation to financial and other interests of members, and in particular the case for a register of interests, and to make recommendations". The Report was printed as an Annex to the Committee's Third Report (HL Paper 90).
§ The Committee welcomes the Report, and recommends that its recommendations be adopted by the House. Annexed to this Report is a note prepared by the Clerk of the Parliaments suggesting what procedure might be adopted.
§ The Committee understands that the Committee on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, under the chairmanship of Lord Nolan, expects to consider issues relating to the House of Lords in 1996. Lord Nolan has indicated to the Leader of the House that it would not cause his committee any difficulty if the House were to accept the recommendations of Lord Griffiths' Sub-Committee in whole or in part in advance of that consideration.
§ The Committee accordingly considers that, provided that there is general support in the House it would be helpful if the recommendations were implemented without delay, ideally from the beginning of the next session of Parliament. The Committee therefore hopes that a general debate on the Report will be held as soon as possible. In the event of there being general support for its recommendations, the order or orders implementing them should be brought before the House before the end of this session, and on that occasion the House could divide, if it were so desired, on the recommendations as a whole or on any details to which exception was taken.
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