Six who fell foul of Elizabeth Filkin

Keith Vaz

Went to unprecedented lengths to hinder Filkin. She said he failed to provide "full and accurate" answers and she was unable to resolve eight claims that he had taken undeclared donations. He hired solicitors who eventually said he would answer no more questions. She found the solicitors a "continuing problem".

The standards and privileges committee ruled: "We ask only that witnesses tell the truth. Solicitors are not required for that purpose." The committee rebuked Vaz for prolonging the inquiry by not answering questions "fully and promptly".

One charge against Vaz was found proved - that he recommended solicitor Sarosh Zaiwallah for an honour without mentioning financial links. After the election Vaz lost his ministerial job.

John Reid

Attempted to frustrate her inquiry, Filkin found. Accused of threatening and intimidating witnesses . His conduct "caused serious and increasing concern".

Made "threats of a particularly disturbing kind" to one former Labour party official, who felt under pressure to give "not wholly accurate or even misleading" evidence to her.

She found it "quite astonishing" that many young Labour officials were being pressed by "one of the most senior politicians in Scotland" to give dishonest evidence.

He hired a QC who attempted to abuse Filkin for being "shoddy" and "mishandling" the inquiry. The committee found this "an unwarranted attack" on her integrity. But it overturned her verdict saying there was lack of proof. Reid remains Northern Ireland secretary.

John Maxton

Filkin found that, like Reid, the MP for Glasgow Cathcart had misused public money to fund Labour campaigns, but again, the standards and privileges committee refused to back her judgment.

Maxton refused to co-operate with a fresh investigation by her or even answer her letters, as he had left parliament. The committee dropped the case. Now a Scottish MSP.

John Major

Ignored a ruling from Filkin that he should declare his large fees for giving lecture tours abroad.

On the advice of Commons officials, he had been listing these speaking engagements in the register of MPs' financial interests, but she ruled that this was not good enough. He has left the Commons.

Peter Mandelson

The standards committee refused to take action after Filkin ruled he should have declared his infamous £373,000 home loan from fellow minister Geoffrey Robinson.

She had also found that he had breached the code of conduct by not disclosing all the facts to his building society when obtaining the mortgage. Mandelson had to resign from the cabinet, was brought back, and had to resign again over his links with the Hinduja brothers.

Geoffrey Robinson

Falsely denied to her he had solicited an undeclared £200,000 cheque from a company controlled by the disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell. The standards and privileges committee agreed with her that Robinson had "misled us ... by withholding information". The millionaire former minister was suspended from the Commons for three weeks.