Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords
Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords are peers who do not belong to any parliamentary group. That is, they do not take a political party's whip, nor affiliate to the crossbench group, nor are Lords Spiritual (bishops). Formerly, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were also a separate affiliation, but their successors (the justices of the Supreme Court) are now disqualified from the Lords while in office and are described as "ineligible" rather than "non-affiliated". Most non-party Lords Temporal are crossbenchers. Members with senior official roles are  counted as non-affiliated while they hold them, to preserve their neutrality; they may (re-)affiliate to a group at the end of their term of office. Some members become non-affiliated after resigning or being expelled from a party, either through a political disagreement or after a scandal such as the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal. Others have had no party allegiance and choose this designation rather than joining the crossbench. Although the Lord Speaker must withdraw from any party affiliation upon their election to the speakership, they are not considered a non-affiliated peer. List of Non-affiliated Peers. The  UK Parliament website lists the following Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords, excluding those on leave of absence or suspended: List of Independent Peers. There are other members listed with an ’Independent’ designation within the House of Lords: