(3 years, 7 months ago)
Lords Chamber Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GP)
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GP) 
        
    
        
    
        My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, has just informed me that MPs are paid during Prorogation. So even when they vote in a general election, they are in fact still being paid as MPs.
 Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury (Con)
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury (Con) 
        
    
        
    
        I just want to say to my noble friend Lord Cormack that, if a Member of Parliament is in a constituency that they do not represent but is on the register, they can vote for that constituency in a by-election even though they are still an MP.