REFORMS to clean up Parliament will have been completed before the next General Election takes place, Harriet Harman will say today.
Voters will be casting ballots for a more transparent and better regulated House, where those who broke expenses rules will have been punished, according to the Commons leader.
She will make the pledge in a speech to the Centre for Public Policy Seminars think-tank in London today.
“Our Parliament has suffered much self-inflicted injury, and we all recognise that it is imperative that we make every effort to rebuild trust in modern democratic Britain – not just for the sake of our politicians, but for the sake of our citizens who need and are entitled to an effective democracy in which they can trust,” Ms Harman is to say.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is due to report this autumn with recommendations for a fairer and more robust allowances system.
Those rules will be overseen by the new Independent Parlia-mentary Standards Authority (IPSA).
