Twenty-four members of the House of Lords have been placed under investigation, after openDemocracy revealed they had not declared details of companies that they run.
The Standards Commissioner today launched an official probe into the lords – who include Tory donor Lord Bamford, Labour’s Lord Carter of Coles, and the businessman and media personality Lord Sugar.
Rules state that if a lord is a company director, they should “give a broad indication of the company’s business, where this is not self-evident from its name”. But openDemocracy found that dozens of peers have not done this.
