Question

To ask the Chairman of Committees what plans there are for providing adequate accommodation for any new members of the House of Lords.

The House’s Estate has been carefully managed over the last fifteen years to enable the Administration to provide a desk to all Members who need one, whilst pursuing objectives of good management of property and value for money, and working within agreed property benchmarking and space targets.

Desks are allocated to the party groups by the Accommodation Steering Group (a sub-group of the Administration and Works Committee) and it is the responsibility of the party groups to allocate desks to specific members. The Administration seeks to provide desks for a few members who are non-affiliated or who belong to smaller groups not represented in the Usual Channels.