This is starting to get tedious, but it deserves to be reported. Yet again, the parliamentary standards bill - the "emergency" anti-sleaze legislation being rushed through parliament to deal with the MPs' expenses controversy - has been slammed by a committee.
The Lords constitution committee has published a report on the technical proposals in the bill.
On Monday, the committee criticised the government for trying to rush the measure on to the statute book.
Today's report focuses on the way the legislation, which will create an independent parliamentary standards authority, will actually operate.
The peers don't think Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has thought it through very carefully and, in particular, they think he should abandon plans to create three new offences for sleazy MPs.
The three new offences are: providing false information when claiming expenses, not registering a financial interest, and engaging in paid advocacy.
The peers say they are concerned about creating offences that apply "only to a very small class of people" and that MPs who fiddle their expenses can already be prosecuted under the Fraud Act.
It is difficult to see what objective difference justifies creating offences for members which are broadly similar to those that already exist in the general law.
It is also noteworthy that while the maximum sentence for the Fraud Act offences is 10 years imprisonment, only 12 months is proposed for the new offences created by the bill.
We do not support the retention in the bill of provisions creating criminal offences applicable to members only when offences in the general criminal law already adequately covers the misconduct in question.
The bill is getting its second reading in the House of Lords this afternoon.
Straw, who's in charge of the bill, may well need to make further compromises if he wants to get it on to the statute book before the summer recess starts a week on Tuesday.
