Kathryn Stone

Kathryn Elizabeth Stone (born 8 August 1963)

She spent 11 years as the chief executive of the national charity Voice UK, being awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to people with learning disabilities.

In 2009, Stone was made a Chartered Director and awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Directors.

In 2012 she was appointed as the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland.

Parliamentary Commissioner In January 2018, Stone was appointed as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards from a list of 81 candidates for a five year term. Her high profile cases included finding against the prime minister Boris Johnson over a free holiday he took in Mustique courtesy of a Tory donor. Despite the fact that the prime minister encouraged a three-line whip on an amendment to change the standards system, the public backlash caused a reversal of policy and the next day Paterson resigned.

In August 2022, she found that both Labour leader Keir Starmer and Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy had inadvertently broken the MPs' code of conduct.

Bar Standards Board

On 1 September 2022 she became the Chair of the Bar Standards Board.

Personal life Stone has three children.