List of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds information
Procedural device to allow British MPs to resign
Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham
Incumbent Chris Skidmore since 8 January 2024
Appointer
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Appointment to the position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds (or the Three Hundreds of Chiltern) is a procedural device to allow members of Parliament (MPs) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Since MPs are technically unable to resign their seats in the House of Commons, they must resort to a legal fiction. An appointment to an "office of profit under The Crown" disqualifies an individual from sitting as an MP. Although several offices were used in the past to allow MPs to resign, only the stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead are in present use.[1]
^"The Chiltern Hundreds" (PDF). Factsheet P11 Procedure Series. House of Commons Information Office. August 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 October 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
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