ABSTRACT
Number of MPs referring cases to the Parliamentary Commissioner: 1986
SOURCE: Drewry and Harlow (1990)
Number of MPs referring cases
Percentage of MPs referring cases
40.5
51.7
26.4
11.1
7.8
1.8
-
-
No of cases referred
suggested, it was also possible that some at least of these Members had not fully appreciated the role the Commissioner could play.22 More than a decade later little had changed. Describing itself as ‘somewhat concerned’ to hear that in 1989 only 361 MPs had used the services of the Commissioner, in December 1990 the Select Committee reported that it ‘suspected’ that some MPs were not using the Office because of a ‘lack of knowledge of his exact role and powers’.23
