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Tim Yeo to return as chairman
of climate change committee
MP cleared of any breach of Code of Conduct after solar ‘sting’
By GreenWeek staff
T
im Yeo is set to return as
chairman of the House of
Commons’ in?uential
Energy and Climate Change
Committee after Parliament’s
Committee on Standards cleared
him of all counts of any breach of
the MP’s Code of Conduct.
The senior MP had referred
himself to the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards to
investigate allegations made
against him in The Sunday Times.
The allegations followed an
undercover operation in which
journalists had posed as
representatives of a company
promoting new energy-ef?cient
solar technology.
The newspaper alleged that Mr
Yeo had offered to approach
Ministers on the company’s behalf,
and that he had once told a
witness, working for a company in
which Mr Yeo had an interest,
what he should say when he had
appeared before the Select
Committee that Mr Yeo chairs.
Tim Yeo said: “I welcome this
report. After a full investigation,
the Parliamentary Standards
Commissioner accepted, as I
have always maintained, that I
did not break the rules of the
House. This investigation included
a thorough examination of the
full video recording produced –
after a six-week delay – to the
Commissioner by The Sunday
Times. Based on what I actually
said, rather than what I was
reported by the newspaper to
have said, the Commissioner
found and the Committee
con?rms that I have not acted in
breach of the Code ????
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