In the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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, Members of Parliament

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 (MPs) can be suspended from sitting in the House of Commons by the Speaker

Speaker of the British House of Commons

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 for "disorderly conduct".
The Speaker can order that an MP is removed from the house until the end of the day, but more often "names

Naming (parliamentary procedure)

Naming is a procedure in the British House of Commons whereby the Speaker or one of his deputies proposes a vote on the suspension of a member of the House whom he believes has broken the rules of conduct of the House....

" an MP.

When an MP is named, a vote is held in the house in the same way as a normal vote on legislation. If the vote is successful, the MP named is suspended for five days for a first offence and 20 days for a second offence, during which time they cannot take part in votes and debates in Parliament. They also have their pay suspended.

Members of the House of Lords can also be suspended. This occurred for the first time since 1642
in May 2009, when Labour peers Lord Truscott and Lord Taylor of Blackburn were suspended after a newspaper accused them of offering to change laws for cash.
It was followed by the suspension of three more peers in October 2010, when Baronness Udin, Lord Paul and Lord Bhatia were suspended following the Parliamentary expenses scandal.

List of MPs suspended from parliament

Date	Member of Parliament	Political party	Duration	Reason
27 May 1976	Michael Heseltine Michael Heseltine Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC is a British businessman, Conservative politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001 and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major...	Conservative	...	Seizing the ceremonial mace Ceremonial mace The ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high official in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority. The mace, as used today, derives from the original mace used as a weapon... .
1992	Dennis Skinner Dennis Skinner Dennis Edward Skinner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Bolsover since 1970, the Chairman of the Labour Party from 1988 to 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee numerous times since 1978.Born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Skinner is the...	Labour	...	Unparliamentary Language.
1995	Dennis Skinner	Labour	...	Accused the Government of being crooked.
2001	Geoffrey Robinson Geoffrey Robinson Geoffrey Robinson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Coventry North West since 1976. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to January 1999, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house...	Labour	3 weeks	Failing to declare receipt of £200,000 from outside interest Hollis/Lock in payment for "management services" he provided in 1990
February 2002	Keith Vaz Keith Vaz Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, known as Keith Vaz, was born 26 November 1956 in Aden, Yemen.Keith Vaz is a British Labour Party politician and a Member of Parliament for Leicester East, He is the longest serving Asian MP and has been the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee since July...	Labour	2 weeks	Negligently overclaiming on expenses
14 February 2003	Michael Trend	Conservative	1 month	Obstructing an investigation into his financial affairs.
February 2003	Clive Betts Clive Betts Clive James Charles Betts is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 to 2010, when he became Member of Parliament for Sheffield South East.- Early life :...	Labour	1 week	Hiring a male escort as his Parliamentary assistant
3 February 2005	Jonathan Sayeed Jonathan Sayeed Jonathan Sayeed is a British politician who was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2005....	Conservative	2 week	Using tours of parliament to promote a travel business.
8 December 2005	Dennis Skinner	Labour	...	Accused the opposition of taking cocaine.
20 April 2006	Dennis Skinner	Labour	...	Unparliamentary Language.
23 July 2007	George Galloway George Galloway George Galloway is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010. He was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, the same year...	Respect	18 days	Questioning the integrity of MPs investigating whether Galloway took money from Iraq.
31 January 2008	Derek Conway Derek Conway Derek Leslie Conway TD is an English politician and television presenter. A member of the centre-right Conservative Party, Conway served as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2001 to 2010....	Conservative	10 days	Employing family members in breach of rules on payments
15 January 2009	John McDonnell John McDonnell (politician) John Martin McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington since 1997; he serves as Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, the Labour Representation Committee, and the "Public Services Not Private Profit Group"...	Labour	5 days	Removing the ceremonial mace Ceremonial mace The ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high official in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority. The mace, as used today, derives from the original mace used as a weapon... .
11 May 2011	David Laws David Laws David Anthony Laws is a British politician. He is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Yeovil and former Chief Secretary to the Treasury....	Liberal Democrat	7 days	Paying rent from his MPs' allowance to his partner.

A full and official list of MPs suspended from Parliament from 1949-2009 can be found here:link Members Suspended from the House of Commons