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UK Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathryn Elizabeth Stone OBE (born 8 August 1963)[1] is the former independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards of the British House of Commons from January 2018 until December 2022.
Kathryn Stone | |
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6th Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards | |
Appointed by | House of Commons Commission |
Preceded by | Kathryn Hudson |
Succeeded by | Daniel Greenberg |
Personal details | |
Born | Kathryn Elizabeth Stone 8 August 1963 Derby, England |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | University of East London Loughborough University |
Kathryn Stone was born in Derby and grew up in Belper. She attended Belper High School. On leaving school, she became a houseparent for children with special needs. She graduated a bachelor's in sociology in the University of East London in 1985, qualified as a social worker in 1985, before going on to graduate with a master's in women studies from Loughborough University in 1990.[2][1]
She spent 11 years as the chief executive of the national charity Voice UK, being awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to people with learning disabilities.[3]
In 2009, Stone was made a Chartered Director and awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Directors.
In 2012 she was appointed as the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland.[3] She was also a commissioner for the Independent Police Complaints Commission, overseeing investigations for seven police forces in the Midlands and North, including into the Rotherham force’s failure to tackle child sex abuse.[2]
In 2016 she took the post of Legal Ombudsman for England and Wales. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Derby in 2018.[4]
In January 2018, Stone was appointed as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards from a list of 81 candidates for a five year term. Her high profile cases included finding against the prime minister Boris Johnson over a free holiday he took in Mustique courtesy of a Tory donor.[2] She took over responsibility for the inquiry into Keith Vaz's behaviour when she complained that he had "failed, repeatedly, to answer direct questions, given incomplete answers and his account [had], in parts, been incredible".[2]
In 2021, she found that the MP Owen Paterson had breached the MP's Code of Conduct, a finding which resulted in the Parliamentary Standards Committee recommending a suspension from the Commons for a period of 30 sitting days.[5] Despite the fact that the prime minister encouraged a three-line whip on an amendment to change the standards system, the public backlash caused a reversal of policy and the next day Paterson resigned.[6]
In August 2022, she found that both Labour leader Keir Starmer and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy had inadvertently broken the MP's code of conduct.[7][8]
On 1 September 2022 she became the Chair of the Bar Standards Board.
Stone has three children.[9]
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