House of Lords data dashboard: Current membership of the House
This page provides interactive data on the current membership of the House of Lords.
This Library Note outlines the development of expense allowances payable to members of the House of Lords, and provides statistics on their rates and overall cost.
Financial Support for Members of the House of Lords (530KB PDF)
This House of Lords Library Note looks at the development of expense allowances for members of the House of Lords since 1944. This includes a chronology of key debates and motions, as well as a summary table. In the second part of the Note, the cost of members’ expenses are placed within the context of the overall cost of the House of Lords since the Life Peerages Act 1958.
Financial Support for Members of the House of Lords (530KB PDF)
This page provides interactive data on the current membership of the House of Lords.
Prorogation is the mechanism by which parliamentary sessions are ended. This House of Lords Library briefing sets out the start and end dates of each parliamentary session since 1900, together with the number of calendar days between the end of the previous session and the start of the new one.
This House of Lords Library briefing provides a list of movers and seconders of the humble address to the sovereign, following the sovereign’s speech at the State Opening of Parliament. The list provides information from 1979 to 2026.