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In summary, this group of amendments advises arrangements both for a reformed House and for a transitional one. The objective, as referred to in Amendment 79, is to preserve and ever improve the present high standard of legislative scrutiny and other attributes. This is accomplished through a temporal House of 600 Members, of which 200, or one-third, are appointed as non-political Cross-Benchers, at 50 more than the government and opposition parties, which at exactly 150 each, and along with the Liberal Democrats and other political parties altogether numbering 100 Members, then make up the combined political element of 400 within a reformed House of 600 Members, these 400 political Members being indirectly elected by an electoral college representative of all parts of the United Kingdom.