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    The reform of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, has been a topic of discussion in UK politics for more than...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The House of Lords Reform Act 2014 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act was a private member's bill. It received royal assent on 14...
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    The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster...
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  • 1997 the United Kingdom government has been engaged in reforming the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The history...
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    although the hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords was abolished for all but ninety-two peers during the 1999 reform of the House of Lords. The term...
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  • the reforms of the House of Lords Act 1999, the majority of hereditary peers became ineligible to be members of the House of Lords, the upper house of...
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  • list of members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit in the House...
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    The House of Lords Reform Bill 2012 was a proposed Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced to the House of Commons in June 2012 by Nick Clegg...
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  • House of Lords. The Commission was established in May 2000 to assist the transitional arrangements for reform of the House of Lords. The role of the Prime...
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    removed the functions of Speaker of the House of Lords and Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales from the office of Lord Chancellor. The office of Lord...
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    The Lords Spiritual are the bishops of the Church of England who sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Up to 26 of the 42 diocesan bishops...
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  • The Bryce Commission was a Commission set up in 1917 to consider reform of the House of Lords. Shell, D. (1994), 'The House of Lords: Time for a Change...
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    Third Reform Act. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-5156-3. McKechnie, The reform of the House of Lords p.49 Blackburn, Robert (February 2011). "Laying the Foundations...
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  • House of Peers (1658–1659) during the final years of the Protectorate Reform of the House of Lords House of Lords (disambiguation) Chamber of Princes...
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    Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords...
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    The Lord Speaker of the House of Lords is the presiding officer, chairman and highest authority of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
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    Whilst the House of Lords of the United Kingdom is the upper chamber of Parliament and has government ministers, for many centuries it had a judicial function...
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  • still retain the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, though their power is restricted and further reform of the House of Lords is under consideration...
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    Text of the Act at British History Online Ballinger 2012, p. 1890. Ballinger, Chris (2012). The House of Lords 1911–2011: A Century of Non-Reform. Hart...
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    The House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which authorised the House of Lords to expel a member...
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    the House of Lords and allows newly inherited hereditary peerages to be disclaimed. A disclaimed peerage remains without a holder until the death of the...
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    House of Lords is an American rock band based in Connecticut, with members in New Jersey and Florida. House of Lords was formed in 1987 by former Angel...
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  • racism, among other issues. He sat on the Conservative benches. He was a supporter of reform of the House of Lords, but not as proposed by Labour. When...
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    The House of Lords (German: Herrenhaus; Czech: Panská sněmovna; Italian: Camera dei signori; Slovene: Gosposka zbornica; Polish: Izba Panów; Romanian:...
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  • Francis Fitzherbert, 15th Baron Stafford (category Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999)
    had a seat in the House of Lords from 1986 until the reform of the House of Lords which took effect in 2000. He serves as the Chancellor of Staffordshire...
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    1-2 House of Lords Act 1999 ss 1-2 Constitutional Reform Act 2005 s 24 See the Lords Appointments webpage. Now confirmed in the House of Lords Reform Act...
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  • Williams of Mostyn, PC, QC (5 February 1941 – 20 September 2003), was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician who was Leader of the House of Lords, Lord...
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    constitution and replace the Lords". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 October 2024. "England needs a 'council of mayors' and Secretary of State to embed...
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