My Lords, I undertook to keep the House informed about developments in the investigation into allegations made earlier this year about a number of Members of this House. I will continue to discharge that undertaking and am now in a position to give the House some further information.

The Committee for Privileges has now considered the report submitted to it by the Sub-Committee on Lords’ Interests on the allegations made by the Sunday Times on the 25 January. I can now inform the House that the report of the Privileges Committee will be published tomorrow at 11 am. It will contain the full report of the sub-committee. I believe it is important that Members of this House are made aware of the developments on this matter through information provided for them in this House, rather than speculation in the media, hence this brief statement. I understand that, especially in the current climate surrounding Parliament, there may well be considerable interest in these matters. For my part, and I hope on the part of others, I shall be making no further statement on these matters until the report is published. I urge Members of this House, and indeed the media and the public beyond, to concentrate on the report itself from the Committee for Privileges when it is published tomorrow, rather than any attempts to second guess it. The Members of this House, and indeed the House itself, deserve nothing less.