Lord Alan Sugar has been urged to retire from Parliament as official figures revealed his dismal attendance within the Home of Lords.

The Apprentice star, 74, has criticised corporations permitting workers to make money working from home, describing it as a ‘come and go as you fancy’ tradition.

However his personal report in Parliament’s second chamber faces severe questions because it emerged his attendance since 2009 is a meagre 14 per cent.

Lord Sugar has made simply 254 out of a doable 1,778 Home of Lords appearances within the final 13 years.

Lord Alan Sugar has been urged to retire from Parliament as official figures revealed his dismal attendance in the House of Lords

Lord Alan Sugar has been urged to retire from Parliament as official figures revealed his dismal attendance within the Home of Lords

The figures cowl the interval from when he turned a Lord in July 2009 to January 5, 2022, in keeping with official knowledge.

The multi-millionaire additionally hasn’t made a spoken contribution within the Lords since October 2018, when he moaned about Brexit in a ‘Individuals’s Vote’ debate, information present.

He hasn’t voted within the unelected Home of Lords since October 2017 and there’s no report of him ever submitting written questions, in keeping with UK Parliament stats.

The billionaire famously ‘fires’ individuals in hit BBC present The Apprentice, which has simply returned to screens, however the British public are unable to take away him from workplace as he is not elected.

The Apprentice star, 74, has made just 254 out of a possible 1,778 House of Lords appearances in the last 13 years - an attendance rate of just 14 per cent

The Apprentice star, 74, has made simply 254 out of a doable 1,778 Home of Lords appearances within the final 13 years – an attendance fee of simply 14 per cent

Nonetheless, John O’Connell, chief government of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, mentioned: ‘If the Home of Lords is to stay a priceless revising chamber, friends who barely contribute to the work of the Higher Home ought to retire.’ 

Attendance by Lord Sugar, who based Amstrad and is Tottenham Hotspur’s ex-chairman, seems to have nosedived through the years since he was ennobled by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009. 

Lord Sugar was initially a Labour peer however resigned from the get together in 2015 over its left-wing ‘coverage shift’ beneath Jeremy Corbyn – and he now sits as a crossbencher.

However his Home of Lords attendance has been in freefall since 2015, when he recorded a excessive of 36 attendances out of a most of 137, knowledge reveals.

Staggering figures present he attended on 14 events out of 151 alternatives in 2016, 19 out of 129 in 2017, and 9 out of 155 in 2018.

Attendance by Lord Sugar, who founded Amstrad and is Tottenham Hotspur's ex-chairman, appears to have nosedived over the years since he was ennobled by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009

Attendance by Lord Sugar, who based Amstrad and is Tottenham Hotspur’s ex-chairman, seems to have nosedived through the years since he was ennobled by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009

Within the Covid-affected years, he is logged as current for seven out of 140 events in 2019 and simply two out of 162 outings final yr.

The enterprise magnate, whose web wealth is estimated as £1.21billion in The Sunday Instances’ wealthy checklist – is just not recorded as attending the chamber up to now this yr, both. 

In July final yr, the businessman sparked controversy by accusing individuals working from house attributable to Covid-19 of being complacent.

He tweeted: ‘Boris says it is now not essential to make money working from home. So metropolis individuals get again to the places of work, let’s kick begin the native financial system for retailers,cafes who suffered badly.

‘Some individuals could have turn out to be complacent liking this new model of working. Properly these people won’t ever work for me.’

He additionally blasted working from house as a ‘fad’, in keeping with reviews final week.

Lord Sugar reportedly added: ‘I am quaint. Working from house isn’t just a covid factor. It is a modern factor that began pre-Covid once you had all these scorching desks.

‘I am 75 quickly and it would not go down too effectively with me.’

He additionally slammed Brit kids and the working tradition at huge tech corporations in December, in keeping with reviews.

The peer reportedly mentioned: ‘Younger individuals today are usually IT literate and turn out to be programmers.

‘And corporations like Google, Fb or Twitter have this “Come and go as you fancy” thought they usually allow them to sit on bean luggage and flick elastic bands at one another, and this “Flip up once you need to” thought.

‘I used to be at all times a 5 working days every week particular person and the weekend was at all times the weekend.

‘I say, get all the things executed in 5 days and it shouldn’t intervene in your loved ones life. Work-life steadiness is a really sensitive topic for me.’

A Home of Lords spokesperson mentioned: ‘We don’t hold monitor of what number of debates a member has sat in on.

‘These are Home attendances, so both participating in a division or captured by a member of workers on an attendance system in or across the chamber when the Home is sitting.

‘Throughout hybrid/digital proceedings this might additionally embrace attending just about.’