Member

We cannot pretend that the removal of the hereditary Peers will improve the effectiveness of the House; that simply cannot be proven. However, I believe that other reforms, about which there is considerable consensus, could improve the effectiveness of the House. My Amendment 8 is deliberately non-specific. Other amendments, both those we debated earlier and those we will address later, are very specific, but mine is deliberately non-specific. I do not wish to tie the hands of either the Government or the House as to what further reforms could be brought forward. I have deliberately stated “two years”, which gives the Government time to devise the next piece of legislation.