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There are many hard-working hereditary Peers. There are also those who we do not see very often, although we might be seeing them a bit more at the moment, but my point is that there is not a great deal of difference. There is a marginal difference in speaking days. I have not looked at the voting record, so perhaps I should look at that as well. Life Peers ask more Questions than hereditary Peers. So there are different ways that we can look at this. The point is that I am not going to accept that life Peers are not as good as their colleagues or playing as active a role, or that without the hereditary Peers the House could not continue its work. I do not think that is the case. I am not going to denigrate the work of any Peer whatever the route by which they came.