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Multimillionaire peers are claiming up to £40,000 a year in expenses for attending the House of Lords while making little or no contributions to debates, committees or questions, an investigation by The Sunday Times has found.
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The rules allow members to claim up to £300 a day for attendance, the only requirement being they show their faces in the chamber or a committee at some point while it is sitting.
Among the highest claimants was Lord Paul, one of Britains richest men. Paul, a crossbencher who was suspended seven years ago for an expenses violation, received £40,800 last year despite making no contributions in the chamber or on committees.
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Earlier this year former Lords Speaker Baroness DSouza told a BBC documentary she had serious concerns over the system, but had abandoned an inquiry into it, fearing the result would be naming and shaming of her fellow peers.
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/revealed-rich-peers-paid-for-doing-nothing-hz5jv3vw7?CMP=TNLEmail_118918_1598443
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)"...did nothing in particular, and did it very well"...nothing has changed...
Initech
(100,102 posts)rpannier
(24,338 posts)their upper house is worthless as well (except for siphoning off funds for their own use)
Australia as well
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)but I think the truth is that I would become bored very rapidly.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)will give you a lowdown on these lowdown high born peers and their entitlement (literal). A gentleman never sullied his hands with work. If he had an interest in government, he contributed. Otherwise, he just cast random votes.
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