Member

While a participation requirement and an age limit have the potential to reduce the size of the House, and there was some support for both during this debate, my amendment aims to address these issues as a whole. The Lord Speaker’s committee argued that, for the long term, we need a number of changes to ensure that the House’s size remains below that of the House of Commons. This can be achieved with a statutory ceiling on the size of the House, supported by mechanisms for a suitable retirement rate and a matching appointment rate for the number of leavers.