115 peers claim £1.3m despite not speaking in Lords for nine months

Electoral Reform Society questions value offered by the ‘worrying number of couch-potato peers and lobby-fodder lords’More than 100 peers have claimed almost £1.3m between them despite not having spoken in the House of Lords for at least nine months, according to a pressure group.The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) said an analysis of parliamentary records shows that of the almost 800 peers in the Lords, 115 of them – about 15% of the total – did not contribute in a