Member

For the necessary transitional period between the present House and a reformed one, as your Lordships are well aware, in his report the noble Lord, Lord Burns, whose Amendment 82 I fully support, presents a good workable system, which is this: in a given year, the collective total of life Peers who retire or die are replaced at 50%. This means that, in a natural way and over not too many years, the current number of temporal Peers, which is now just under 800, will have come down to about 600.