PARLIAMENT will vote on whether to suspend North Shropshire MP Owen Paterson for 30 days next week.

Mr Paterson is facing the prospect of a 30-day suspension from Parliament after he was found to have breached Commons rules on lobbying.

Speaking to Parliament on Thursday, leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said a vote would take place next Wednesday, November 3.

An investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Stone, found he repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials on behalf of two companies for which he was acting as a paid consultant – Randox, and Lynn's Country Foods.

The Commons Standards Committee said his actions were an "egregious" breach of the rules on paid advocacy by MPs and recommended that he should be suspended for 30 sitting days.