Member

When the Lord Privy Seal or whoever comes to respond from the Treasury Bench, it would be useful to hear some indication of whether they think I have got the limits too high or too low and what they think the correct proportion of former MPs and former special advisers should be in your Lordships’ House. The Lord Privy Seal has spoken previously of her desire to see roughly equal numbers between the two principal parties. I do not know whether she has a sense of how many former MPs it is ideal to have in your Lordships’ House, but I would welcome her thoughts on it and those of my many noble friends who have caught me in the corridors to tell me already. I beg to move.