Peers to be paid ‘£160 just for clicking a button’ under House of Lords remote-voting plans

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Peers to be paid ‘£160 just for clicking a button’ under remote-voting plans from House of Lords officials

  • House of Lords peers to get £162 a day for voting online by touching a button  
  • Peers are not even being encouraged to return to Westminster after Whitsun 
  • Conservative MP says the public will be rightly outraged if the plan is agreed

By Mail on Sunday Reporter

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House of Lords officials have been accused of preparing to pay peers ‘just for clicking a button’ under remote-voting plans.

Peers, who unlike MPs are not being encouraged to return to Westminster after Whitsun, would get £162 – half their usual daily allowance – for voting online.

Sources said the plan was set to be discussed by the House of Lords Commission.

House of Lords officials have been accused of preparing to pay peers ‘just for clicking a button’ under remote-voting plans. The chamber is pictured in January

Tory MP Henry Smith condemned the idea, telling The Mail on Sunday: ‘It is unacceptable that Lords should be paid just for voting remotely. The public will be rightly outraged if this is agreed.’

Last night, a Lords spokesman said no such remote-voting plan had yet been approved.

Tory MP Henry Smith (above) condemned the idea, telling The Mail on Sunday: ¿It is unacceptable that Lords should be paid just for voting remotely. The public will be rightly outraged if this is agreed'

Tory MP Henry Smith (above) condemned the idea, telling The Mail on Sunday: ‘It is unacceptable that Lords should be paid just for voting remotely. The public will be rightly outraged if this is agreed’