HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

a bill should be made at least on the occasion of the member’s first
intervention at each stage of the bill’s progress.
5.26 Members should declare interests briefly, but in such a way that
their declaration is comprehensible, specific, and unambiguous, without
either demanding prior knowledge of their audience or requiring
reference to other documents, including the Register. An exception may
be made at Oral Questions or other time-limited proceedings, where it
may be for the convenience of the House that members should not take
up time by making lengthy or repeated declarations of interest. On such
occasions a brief reference to the published Register may be appropriate,
though this only suffices for registered interests.
5.27 Members should not take up the time of the House, particularly
during time-limited proceedings, by declaring trivial, frivolous or irrelevant
interests.
5.28 Members are also required to draw attention to any relevant
registrable interests when tabling written notices in House of Lords
Business. The symbol [I] appears after the member’s name in House of
Lords Business. The Table Office also arranges for online publication of
the specific interest.
Members’ financial support
5.29 Membership of the House of Lords is not salaried. Members of
the House are, however, entitled to claim some financial support in
respect of their parliamentary work. The House Committee is
responsible for proposing rules on the financial support available to
members, which are reported to and agreed by the House. The available
support and the rules relating to the scheme are set out in the General
Guide to the Members’ Reimbursement Scheme.
5.30 Paragraph 10(c) of the Code of Conduct states that members
shall “act in accordance with any rules agreed by the House in respect of
financial support for Members”. A breach of such rules therefore
constitutes a breach of the Code of Conduct and could lead to an
investigation by the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards.
5.31 The Finance Director is responsible for the administration of the
scheme, and any member may seek the written advice of the Finance
Director before determining what use to make of the scheme. The
responsibility for deciding what use to make of the scheme rests with the
member concerned.
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