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It is not wrong to say that it is clearly easier for somebody to be a Lord and serve in the other place if they already have a base in London, and the figures bear that out. If we look at the Lords’ own surveys, we see that they show the breakdown of where each Lord comes from. About a quarter of them come from London, about 20% come from the south-east and only around 5% come from Yorkshire and the Humber, despite my region being home to 9% of the population—I am rounding up there, so forgive me for that.