Editing Geoff Hoon

{{Short description|British Labour politician (born 1953)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = Geoff Hoon
| image               = Geoffrey Hoon at the Pentagon.jpg
| caption             = Hoon in 2002
| office              = [[Secretary of State for Transport]]
| primeminister       = [[Gordon Brown]]
| term_start          = 3 October 2008
| term_end            = 5 June 2009
| predecessor         = [[Ruth Kelly]]
| successor           = [[Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis|The Lord Adonis]]
| office1             = [[Chief Whip of the Labour Party|Chief Whip of the House of Commons]]<br/>[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]]
| primeminister1      = [[Gordon Brown]]
| 1blankname1         = Deputy
| 1namedata1          = [[Nick Brown]]
| term_start1         = 28 June 2007
| term_end1           = 3 October 2008
| predecessor1        = [[Jacqui Smith]]
| successor1          = [[Nick Brown]]
| office3             = [[Minister of State for Europe]]
| primeminister3      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start3         = 5 May 2006
| term_end3           = 28 June 2007
| predecessor3        = [[Douglas Alexander]]
| successor3          = [[Jim Murphy]]
| primeminister4      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start4         = 28 July 1999
| term_end4           = 11 October 1999
| predecessor4        = [[Joyce Quin]]
| successor4          = [[Keith Vaz]]
| office5             = [[Leader of the House of Commons]]<br />[[Lord Privy Seal|Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal]]
| primeminister5      = [[Tony Blair]]
| 1blankname5         = Deputy
| 1namedata5          = [[Phil Woolas]]<br />[[Nigel Griffiths]]
| term_start5         = 6 May 2005
| term_end5           = 5 May 2006
| predecessor5        = [[Peter Hain]]
| successor5          = [[Jack Straw]]
| office6             = [[Secretary of State for Defence]]
| primeminister6      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start6         = 11 October 1999
| term_end6           = 6 May 2005
| predecessor6        = [[George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen|George Robertson]]
| successor6          = [[John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan|John Reid]]
| office7             = [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office|Minister of State for Asia, the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa]]
| primeminister7      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start7         = 9 May 1999
| term_end7           = 28 July 1999
| predecessor7        = [[Derek Fatchett]]
| successor7          = [[Peter Hain]]
| office8             = [[Lord Chancellor's Department|Minister of State for the Lord Chancellor's Department]]
| primeminister8      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start8         = 28 July 1998
| term_end8           = 9 May 1999
| predecessor8        = Office established
| successor8          = [[Harriet Harman]] (2005)
| office9             = [[Lord Chancellor's Department|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Lord Chancellor's Department]]
| primeminister9      = [[Tony Blair]]
| term_start9         = 6 May 1997
| term_end9           = 28 July 1998
| predecessor9        = Office established
| successor9          = [[Keith Vaz]]
| office10            = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashfield]]
| predecessor10       = [[Frank Haynes (politician)|Frank Haynes]]
| successor10         = [[Gloria De Piero]]
| term_start10        = 9 April 1992
| term_end10          = 12 April 2010
| majority10          = 
| birth_name          = Geoffrey William Hoon
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1953|12|6|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Derby]], [[Derbyshire]], [[England]]
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
| spouse              = Elaine Dumelow
| children            = 3
| alma_mater          = [[Jesus College, Cambridge]]
}}

'''Geoffrey William Hoon''' (born 6 December 1953) is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who served as the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashfield]] in [[Nottinghamshire]] from 1992 to 2010. He is a former [[Secretary of State for Defence|Defence Secretary]], [[Transport Secretary]], [[Leader of the House of Commons]] and [[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury|Government Chief Whip]].

He had previously been a [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for [[Derbyshire (European Parliament constituency)|Derbyshire]] from 1984 to 1994.

==Early life==
Hoon was born in [[Derby]], England, and is the son of railwayman Ernest Hoon and June Collett. He was privately educated at [[Nottingham High School]], an [[independent school]]. He then read law at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]] from which he graduated in 1976. He was a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the [[University of Leeds]] from 1976 to 1982 and was a sub-warden at Devonshire Hall. He was [[called to the bar]] at [[Gray's Inn]] in 1978, and was also a visiting Law Professor at the [[University of Louisville]], Kentucky, from 1979 to 1980. In 1982, Hoon became a practising [[barrister]] in [[Nottingham]].<ref name=guardian-20040123/>

==Member of Parliament==
Hoon was elected as a [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for Derbyshire in 1984 and served in [[Brussels]] and [[Strasbourg]] for ten years. In 1988, he drafted a report for the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs in favour of prohibiting dual membership of the European Parliament and national parliaments, subsequently approved by the Parliament and enacted as of the 2004 European elections. Ironically, Hoon himself became a dual-mandate member for two years, after being elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and only standing down from the European Parliament at the 1994 elections.<ref>Corbett, Richard; Jacobs, Francis; Neville, Darren (2016), 'The European Parliament' (9 ed.), London: John Harper Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9934549-5-0</ref>

He was elected to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] at the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]] for [[Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashfield]], making his [[maiden speech]] on 20 May 1992, following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP, [[Frank Haynes (politician)|Frank Haynes]]. He held the seat with a majority of 12,987 and remained as the MP until the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]].<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo991111/text/91111w09.htm#91111w09.htm_sbhd2 Hansard]</ref>

Towards the end of his political career, Hoon acquired the irreverent nickname Buff (''Buffoon'')<ref name="buffoon">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/geoff-hoon-you-ask-the-questions-966947.html|title=Geoff Hoon: You Ask The Questions|date=20 October 2008|work=[[The Independent]]|publisher=[[The Independent]]|access-date=8 June 2010|location=United Kingdom}}</ref> as the result of a joke told by fellow Labour Party colleague [[Peter Kilfoyle]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-kilfoyle-i-gave-geoff-his-buff-hoon-nickname-1874219.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Pandora: Kilfoyle: I gave Geoff his 'Buff Hoon' nickname | first=Alice-Azania | last=Jarvis | date=21 January 2010}}</ref>

==Shadow Cabinet and early government posts==
In Parliament, Hoon was promoted by Tony Blair in 1994 when he was appointed as an opposition [[Whip (politics)|whip]], and in 1995 he joined the [[frontbench]] team as a spokesman on Trade and Industry. Following the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]] he became a member of the government of [[Tony Blair]] as the [[Parliamentary under-secretary of state]] at the [[Lord Chancellor's Department]], being promoted to the rank of [[Minister of State]] in the same department in 1998.

In 1999, Hoon was briefly a minister at the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] with responsibility for Asia, the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/news/vote2001/hi/english/key_people/newsid_1179000/1179286.stm|title=Geoff Hoon: Defence Secretary|date=2001-03-02|access-date=2019-10-25|language=en-GB}}</ref> He entered the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|cabinet]] later in the year as the [[Secretary of State for Defence]], at which time he became a member of the [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|Privy Council]]. He served as the [[Lord Privy Seal]] and the [[Leader of the House of Commons]] from the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]] until 5 May 2006, when he was appointed as Minister for Europe.

==Secretary of State for Defence==
[[File:Geoff Hoon Pentagon.jpg|thumb|210px|left|Geoff Hoon (right) at Pentagon briefing with [[Donald Rumsfeld]]]]
On 11 October 1999 Hoon was appointed [[Secretary of State for Defence]].<ref name=bbc-19991012>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/471795.stm |title=For the defence: Geoff Hoon |work=BBC News |date=12 October 1999 |access-date=5 August 2018}}</ref> His term took him through the 2000 [[British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War]] and the [[NATO]] intervention in the [[2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia]]. The rest of his term was dominated by the start of the [[War on terror]] in 2001, including British participation in both the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]], [[Operation Herrick]], and the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], [[Operation Telic]].<ref name=guardian-20040123>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jan/23/uk.military2 |title=The Guardian profile: Geoff Hoon |last=Wintour |first=Patrick |newspaper=The Guardian |date=23 January 2004 |access-date=5 August 2018}}</ref>

Asserting the importance of deterrence, in a 2003 interview on the BBC's ''[[Breakfast with Frost]]'', Hoon asserted that the UK was willing to use [[nuclear weapons]] against Iraqi forces "in the right circumstances, namely in extreme self defence."<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2717939.stm |title=UK restates nuclear threat |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=2 February 2003}}</ref><ref name="frost">Geoff Hoon, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/38769000/rm/_38769013_iraqweapons10_hoon_vi.ram interview] by [[David Frost]], ''Breakfast with Frost'', BBC News, 23 February 2003</ref>

On 23 June 2003, Hoon, following a detailed briefing given to the United Nations by US Secretary of State, [[Colin Powell]], continued to claim that two trailers found in Iraq were [[mobile weapons laboratory|mobile weapons laboratories]].<ref name="hansard2">{{Cite web|date=23 June 2003| url = https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030623/debtext/30623-02.htm | title = Hansard – Written Answers – Column 696 | publisher = House of Commons Hansard | access-date = 16 January 2008 | last= Hansard}}</ref> This was in spite of the fact that it had been leaked to the press by [[David Kelly (weapons expert)|David Kelly]]<ref name="hutton3">{{Cite web|date=24 September 2003| url = http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/transcripts/hearing-trans17.htm | title = Hutton Inquiry Hearing Transcripts – Peter Stuart Beaumont | publisher = The Hutton Inquiry| access-date = 16 January 2008 | last= Hutton}}</ref> and other weapons inspectors that they were nothing of the sort. The trailers were for filling hydrogen balloons for artillery ranging and were sold to Iraq by a British company, Marconi.<ref name="Observer ">{{cite news|date= 15 June 2003| url = https://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/Story/0,,977916,00.html| title = Iraqi mobile labs nothing to do with germ warfare, report finds | newspaper = The Observer| access-date = 24 July 2007 | last= Peter Beaumont, Antony Barnett and Gaby Hinsliff | location=London}}</ref>

In an April 2004 interview, Hoon said that more could have been done to help Kelly, who committed suicide on 17 July 2003 after being named as the source of [[Andrew Gilligan]]'s disputed ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' programme contribution.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3654913.stm |title=Hoon admits mistakes over Kelly |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=24 April 2004|access-date=3 October 2008}}</ref>

Hoon gave evidence about the Iraq war both to the 2003 [[Hutton Inquiry]] during his term,<ref name=guardian-20040123/> and later on 19 January 2010 [[List of witnesses of The Iraq Inquiry#January 18|gave evidence]] to the [[Iraq Inquiry]] about his time as Defence Secretary.<ref name="BBC Iraq inquiry">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8466828.stm |title=Iraq inquiry: 45-minute weapon claim 'new' to Hoon |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

===Comments on cluster bombs===
Shortly after the US/UK led invasion of Iraq began in 2003, following an admission by the Ministry of Defence that Britain had dropped 50 airborne cluster bombs in the south of Iraq and left behind up to 800 unexploded bomblets, it was put to Hoon in a Radio 4 interview that an Iraqi mother of a child killed by these [[cluster bombs]] would not thank the British Army. He replied "One day they might." Hoon continued, "I accept that in the short term the consequences are terrible. No one minimises those and I'm not seeking to do so," he said. "But what I am saying is that this is a country that has been brutalised for decades by this appalling regime and that the restoration of that country to its own people, the possibility of their deciding for themselves their future ... and indeed the way in which they go about their lives, ultimately, yes, that will be a better place for people in Iraq."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hoon-is-cruel--for-claims-on-cluster-bombs-claims-593447.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226020729/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hoon-is-cruel--for-claims-on-cluster-bombs-claims-593447.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 February 2009 |title= Hoon is 'cruel' for claims on cluster bombs By Paul Waugh and Ben Russell |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=5 April 2003 | location=London | access-date=3 May 2010}}</ref>

===HMCS ''Chicoutimi'' comments===
In 1998, Canada purchased four [[Upholder/Victoria-class submarine|''Upholder''-class submarines]] and a suite of trainers from the [[Royal Navy]] to replace their decommissioned [[Oberon-class submarine|''Oberon''-class submarines]]. The ''Upholder'' class entered Royal Navy service from 1990 to 1993 at the end of the [[Cold War]], and were deemed surplus as part of the [[Peace Dividend]] and refocus on a nuclear submarine fleet. They were placed into storage until Canada purchased them.

On 5 October 2004 [[HMCS Chicoutimi (SSK 879)|HMCS ''Chicoutimi'']], sailing from [[Faslane Naval Base]] to Nova Scotia, declared an emergency northwest of Ireland following a fire on board.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3719760.stm|title=Rescue ship reaches sub crew|work=[[BBC News]]|date=7 October 2004}}</ref> The fire was caused by seawater entering through open hatches in rough seas; an inquiry established later that this was an "incorrect operating procedure". It soaked electrical insulation (which had not been sufficiently waterproofed since it conformed to an older specification than the three other submarines), starting a fire. The ''Chicoutimi'' lost power and wallowed in the seas NW of Ireland. An Irish Naval vessel was damaged by the heavy seas when trying to get to the ''Chicoutimi'' but another the LÉ ''Aoife'' was able to reach her and took over from British [[Royal Navy]] frigates [[HMS Montrose (F236)|HMS ''Montrose'']] and [[HMS Marlborough (F233)|''Marlborough'']] as the scene coordinator on the 6th of October. Three crewmen were airlifted to Sligo General Hospital in Ireland where Lt(N) Chris Saunders died subsequently from the effects of smoke inhalation.

Following claims made in the Canadian media about the cause of the fire, blaming the UK for supplying an unsafe vessel, Hoon accompanied his condolences for Saunders by stating that Canada would be charged for the rescue and stating that Canada as the [[caveat emptor|buyer had to beware]]. In Canada, many [[World War II]] veterans were outraged by his comments, considering Canada's sacrifice for Britain during both World Wars.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20041018/sub_inquiry_041017?hub=EdmontonHome/feed/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706175250/http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20041018/sub_inquiry_041017?hub=EdmontonHome/feed/|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 July 2011|title=Chicoutimi fire could have been worse: report|publisher=[[CTV News]]|date=18 October 2004|access-date=3 September 2010}}</ref>

===Comments on Extraordinary Rendition===
Hoon was criticised by an international delegation of European MPs for evading questions about Britain's co-operation with the CIA's so-called 'extraordinary rendition' programme, even though he knew nothing about the programme.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hoon-unhelpful-and-evasive-about-american-rendition-flights-say-meps-419046.html Hoon 'unhelpful and evasive' about American rendition flights, say MEPs], by Ben Russell. ''The Independent'', 7 October 2006.</ref> Hoon, then Minister for Europe, was being quizzed in the wake of [[Dick Marty]]'s Council of Europe report which found extensive involvement of European countries, including Britain, in the US kidnapping and torture programme.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2006/20060606_Ejdoc162006PartII-FINAL.pdf |title=Council of Europe Report}}</ref>

==Secretary of State for Transport==
In the reshuffle after the sudden resignation of the [[Secretary of State for Transport]], [[Ruth Kelly]], during the 2008 Labour Party Conference, Hoon became the Secretary of State for Transport on 3 October 2008. His former role as Labour [[Chief Whip]] was given to [[Nick Brown]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3127478/Peter-Mandelson-returns-to-Government-in-Gordon-Browns-reshuffle.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006023352/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3127478/Peter-Mandelson-returns-to-Government-in-Gordon-Browns-reshuffle.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 October 2008 |title=Peter Mandelson 'returns to Government in Gordon Brown's reshuffle' |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] |date=3 October 2008 | location=London | first1=Jon | last1=Swaine | first2=Andrew | last2=Porter | access-date=3 May 2010}}</ref>

In January 2009, Hoon gave the official go-ahead for the controversial [[expansion of Heathrow Airport]]. Later that same year, Transport Secretary Hoon oversaw the launch of the [[vehicle scrappage scheme]]; which was intended to encourage motorists to scrap their older, more polluting vehicles for a discount off a more modern, more environmentally friendly newer car from participating companies.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7829676.stm |title=Go-ahead for new Heathrow runway |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=15 February 2009}}</ref>

==Backbench MP==
Hoon resigned from his post as Transport Secretary on 5 June 2009 during a [[Cabinet reshuffle]], saying that he wanted to spend more time with his family.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Gordon-Browns-Reshuffle-Defence-Secretary-Quits-Andy-Burnham-Heads-To-Health/Article/200906115296531 |title=Walkouts and a Wipeout, But Brown Clings On |publisher=[[Sky News]]| date=5 June 2009}}</ref>
On 6 January 2010, he and fellow ex-minister [[Patricia Hewitt]] jointly called for a secret ballot on the future of the leadership of [[Gordon Brown]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/06/hoon-hewitt-gordon-brown-labour |title=Hewitt and Hoon's great gamble |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=6 January 2010 | location=London | first=Martin | last=Kettle | access-date=3 May 2010}}</ref> The following day, he said that it appeared to have failed and was "over". Brown later referred to the call for a secret ballot as a "form of silliness".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8450375.stm |title=Gordon Brown says leadership challenge was 'silliness' |work=[[BBC News Online]]|date=10 January 2010}}</ref> After the failed coup there was a backlash against Hoon which flowed over into his [[Ashfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashfield]] constituency in [[Nottinghamshire]] where some Labour party members wanted to deselect him.

During the [[Iraq Inquiry]], Hoon said that the first he knew of the 45-minute Iraq weapon claim was when he read it in the dossier on Iraq's weapons in September 2002.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8466828.stm |title=Iraq inquiry: 45-minute weapon claim 'new' to Hoon |work=[[BBC News Online]] | date=19 January 2010}}</ref>

Hoon had said that he would defend his seat at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 general election]] but according to the ''[[Financial Times]]'' he had "finally bowed to pressure" and on 11 February 2010, he announced that he would stand down as an [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|next election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1db96fc-1713-11df-afcf-00144feab49a.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1db96fc-1713-11df-afcf-00144feab49a.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Hoon bows to pressure to step down as MP |newspaper=[[The Financial Times]] |date=11 February 2010}}</ref>
After his retirement from politics he helped to set up a consultancy firm "TaylorHoon Strategy".  He is now Managing Director of International Business at helicopter-maker [[AgustaWestland]].<ref>Agusta Westland Corporate Comms</ref>

==Expense claims==
In April 2009, it emerged that Hoon had rented out his London home and claimed expenses on his constituency house, as approved by the Fees Office of the House of Commons. For security reasons he was required to live in state-owned accommodation at [[Admiralty House (London)|Admiralty House]]. Whilst this was rent free it involved significant costs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/news/party-politics/labour/geoff-hoon-claimed-expenses-for-third-home--$1285812.htm |title=Geoff Hoon 'claimed expenses for third home' |publisher=Politics.co.uk |date=5 April 2009}}</ref> He made clear that he had only claimed what he was entitled to under the rules of the House of Commons.

==Dispatches lobbyist investigation==
{{Main|2010 cash for influence scandal}} Hoon was one of the MPs named in the 2010 sting operation on political lobbying by the [[Channel 4]] ''[[Dispatches (TV programme)|Dispatches]]'' programme. Hoon told an undercover reporter that he wanted to translate his knowledge and contacts into something that "frankly makes money".<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7069879.ece Insight: Jobseeker Geoff Hoon plans to cash in]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} [[Sunday Times]], 21 March 2010</ref> On 22 March 2010 it was announced he had been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, alongside [[Patricia Hewitt]] and [[Stephen Byers]].<ref>[http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Lobby-Row-Stephen-Byers-Patricia-Hewitt-And-Geoff-Hoon-Are-Suspended-From-Parliamentary-Party/Article/201003415579686?lpos=Politics_First_Poilitics_Article_Teaser_Regi_0&lid=ARTICLE_15579686_Lobby_Row%3A_Stephen_Byers%2C_Patricia_Hewitt_And_Geoff_Hoon_Are_Suspended_From_Parliamentary_Party Labour Suspends 'Cash-For-Lobby' MPs] Sky News, 22 March 2010</ref>

On 9 December 2010, Hoon, along with [[Stephen Byers]] and [[Richard Caborn]] were banned from having an ex-members pass. The [[Standards and Privileges Committee]] banned Hoon for a minimum five years as his was the most serious breach, whilst Byers received two years and Caborn six months.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Geoff-Hoon-Stephen-Byers-And-Geoff-Hoon-Could-All-Be-Banned-From-Houses-Of-Parliament/Article/201012215850598?lpos=Politics_Second_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15850598_Geoff_Hoon,_Stephen_Byers_And_Geoff_Hoon_Could_All_Be_Banned_From_Houses_Of_Parliament |title=Three Former MPs Face Parliamentary Ban |access-date=9 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101217015435/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Geoff-Hoon-Stephen-Byers-And-Geoff-Hoon-Could-All-Be-Banned-From-Houses-Of-Parliament/Article/201012215850598?lpos=Politics_Second_UK_News_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15850598_Geoff_Hoon%2C_Stephen_Byers_And_Geoff_Hoon_Could_All_Be_Banned_From_Houses_Of_Parliament |archive-date=17 December 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref>

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[[Category:UK MPs 2005–2010]]
[[Category:MEPs for England 1984–1989]]
[[Category:MEPs for England 1989–1994]]
[[Category:New Labour]]