The complex includes three residential buildings, a kitchen and dining facility, ice house, stables and ancillary service buildings.

It has no connection with the day-to-day business of a parliament, other than in the maintenance of infrastructure and the provision of some ancillary services.

It also means ancillary services such as coffee shops and dry cleaners, which had been desperate for footfall, are once again facing an uncertain future.

Formation agents grew up in the old, paper world, setting up companies and providing ancillary services such as a registered address or producing annual returns.

The second, was an agreement whereby the college hired the books and ancillary services back from the company for the use of members and staff of the college.