As regular readers will be aware, the House of Lords is a self-regulating chamber. The Lord Speaker has no powers in the chamber. The House collectively is responsible for order. No one has to catch the Speaker’s eye in order to speak. If you wish to speak in a set-piece debate, you sign up in advance. …
In response to a post by Baroness d’Souza, Bedd Gelert makes the valid point that it is difficult to know who members are. Hence, there is a problem in seeking to communicate with them. As he mentions, there is now http://www.theyworkforyou.com which provides information on the activity of individual parliamentarians. It is a valuable site,…
