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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/commons-ban-for-exlabour-ministers.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Geoff Hoon had his Commons pass suspended for five years" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-commons-ban-for-exlabour-ministers.jpg" alt="Geoff Hoon had his Commons pass suspended for five years"/></a></p>
<p>Three former Labour ministers have been stripped of their parliamentary passes after they breached lobbying rules.</p>
<p>Ex-defence secretary Geoff Hoon had his Commons pass suspended for five years after a damning verdict by the Standards and Privileges Committee.</p>
<p>Former transport secretary Stephen Byers, who likened himself to a &#8220;taxi for hire&#8221; in a series of stings by undercover reporters, was banned for two years.</p>
<p>And ex-sports minister Richard Caborn was suspended for six months.</p>
<p>The recommendations from the cross-party committee were endorsed by MPs without a vote.</p>
<p>The committee&#8217;s Labour chairman Kevin Barron accused the journalists who carried out the sting of &#8220;deception&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said they would &#8220;no doubt argue that they had served the public interest but of course they were also taking advantage of a need of retiring MPs in the run-up to a general election to provide for their future employment&#8221;.</p>
<p>He went on: &#8220;They dangled some of the bait in front of our former colleagues and unfortunately some of them took it. If it wasn&#8217;t entrapment it was something close to entrapment.</p>
<p>&#8220;While I do not seek to excuse the conduct of the three former members who are the subject of the motion, I think that the whole House would feel some sympathy for them because of the way that they were deceived.&#8221;</p>
<p>The House authorities launched a probe last spring after the expose by Channel 4&#8217;s Dispatches and the Sunday Times.</p>
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