NOLAN REPORT, THE


Meaning of NOLAN REPORT, THE in English

No ‧ lan Re ‧ port, the /ˈnəʊlən rɪˌpɔːt $ -rɪˌpɔːrt/ BrE AmE

a report made in 1997 by the Nolan Committee, a group which was set up in the UK in 1994 in order to find out if some members of Parliament had behaved dishonestly. According to the newspapers, some Conservative MPs had accepted money from business people in exchange for asking questions for them in the House of Commons. The committee found that some of these claims were true. It was led by a judge called Lord Nolan.

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