Kuala Lampur, Dec. 6 -- The United Kingdom's (UK) House of Commons (the Commons) has a team of researchers whose job is to provide a range of research and information services for Members of Parliament (MPs) and MPs' staff.

The research works are published, providing politically impartial and in-depth analysis of Bills, legislation, topical areas, policy and constituency issues.

Sometime in March last year, the Commons published a Research Briefing on MPs who have withdrawn from the Commons Chamber or who have been suspended.

According to Erskine May, the power to suspend MPs is as ancient as the institution itself. There are a number of cases of MPs being suspended for varying periods in the seventeenth century.

Although there had be...