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The following are lists of members of the House of Lords: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
The proposals were considered by a Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform made up of both MPs and Peers. The Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform published its final report on 23 April 2012 [46] and made the following suggestions: The reformed House of Lords should have 450 members. [47]
The House of Lords Act 1999 (c. 34) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the House of Lords, one of the chambers of Parliament. The Act was given royal assent on 11 November 1999. [3] For centuries, the House of Lords had included several hundred members who inherited their seats (hereditary peers); the Act removed ...
The reformed House of Lords should have 300 members of whom 240 are "Elected Members" and 60 appointed "Independent Members". Up to 12 Church of England archbishops and bishops may sit in the house as ex officio "Lords Spiritual". Elected Members will serve a single, non-renewable term of 15 years.
Apart from retired Lords Spiritual and the surviving hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999, including the Marquess of Cholmondeley who was exempt from the 1999 Act by virtue of his position as Lord Great Chamberlain until the accession of Charles III in September 2022, [1] there are a number of living peers who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.
Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal, former director of the New Schools Network and deputy director at Policy Exchange: Lord Evans of Guisborough: 6 February 2025 Conservative Life peer Former London Assembly member for Havering and Redbridge (2000–2016), former Deputy Mayor of London (2015–2016) Lord Evans of Rainow: 9 ...
The number of transitional members was computed with reference to the number of peers entitled to a writ of summons at the beginning of 27 June 2012 (i.e. the members of the House of Lords excluding the Lords Spiritual). For the first electoral period (2015–17/20), the number of transitional members would have been equal to two-thirds of that ...
The House of Lords Reform Act 2014 allowed members to resign from the House; previously there had been no mechanism for this. It also provided for the exclusion of any peer sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year or more for a criminal offence, as well as a mechanism for removal of peers for non-attendance.