Summary
This Report from the Committee on Standards and Privileges, 'Conduct of Mr Peter Hain' (HC 324), sets out the current state of the investigation into the conduct of Mr Peter Hain, Member of Parliament for Neath and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards submitted a memorandum of progress to date of his investigation of complaints that the Rt. Hon. Peter Hain MP, the Member for Neath, failed to register in the Register of Members' Interests all donations he received in his Deputy Leadership campaign within the required time limit.
On 24 January 2008, following the Electoral Commission's referral of Mr Hain's failure to report certain donations to them to the Metropolitan Police, Mr Hain announced his resignation from the Cabinet, stepping down as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales.
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