This week’s quiz is on peers who have previously sat in the House of Commons. The House has just under 180 members who have been MPs. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. 1. I am a former Labour minister who later became leader of the SDP…
The issue of travel expenses for parliamentarians is again in the news. At the moment, members of both Houses are entitled to travel first class. I always travel by train – I use it as a travelling office – and the value of first class is the availability of a table. It is also possible…
I have previously commented on the breadth of material we receive in our parliamentary mail. My postbag now includes Kennel & Cattery Management. This comes courtesy of one of our regular readers. I did read through the latest issue it in case it covered the recent research that found that graduates were more likely to be cat lovers than dog…
I recently tabled a question to find out how many pageviews the House of Lords website gets each month. It is a question I now tend to table annually. The figures reveal that the number of pageviews is fairly modest – over 30,000 in a good month and less than 10,000 in a quiet month. …
For this week’s quiz, I was tempted to ask which well known television quiz programme, broadcast last night, asserted that Michael Martin was the first Speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office since 1695. (Oh dear.) Anyway, here are this week’s questions. As usual, the first two readers to supply…
