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List of members of the House of Lords may refer to: 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 electorates are either the whole membership of the House of Lords (including life peers), or a party group of sitting hereditary peers. A standing order of the House, approved prior to the commencement of the House of Lords Act 1999, mandates that the 90 elected hereditary peers consist of: [1] 2 peers elected by the Labour hereditary peers
The Life Peerages Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on 21 November 1957, and its second reading took place on 3 and 5 December 1957. Committee stage was taken on 17 and 18 December 1957. The bill was reported without amendment and given a third reading on 30 January 1958. [1]
Number of members of the House of Lords from 1998 to 2021. The size of the House of Lords has varied greatly throughout its history. The English House of Lords—then comprising 168 members—was joined at Westminster by 16 Scottish peers to represent the peerage of Scotland—a total of 184 nobles—in 1707's first Parliament of Great Britain.
The Bill, if passed, will entirely remove hereditary peers from voting functions within the House of Lords. House of Lords reform was included within the Labour Party's manifesto for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, which included an age cap on peers and the removal of hereditary peers entirely. [1]
Ralph William Robert Stonor, 8th Baron Camoys (born 10 September 1974), is a British hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Lord Camoys became a member of the House in November 2023, after winning a hereditary peers' by-election to replace Lord Brougham and Vaux .
Female members of the House of Lords (4 C, 2 P) L. Leaders of the House of Lords (6 C, 88 P) Lords Speaker (4 P) Pages in category "Members of the British House of Lords"
Hereditary members of the British House of Lords by party (8 C) + Female hereditary members of the House of Lords (21 P) H. House of Lords Act 1999 (2 C, 1 P)