Oral QuestionHome Office

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 26 March 2024Answered: 15 April 2024

Asked by

Justin Madders

LabourEllesmere Port and Bromborough

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

The Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office (Nick Thomas-Symonds)

As an immediate first step in reform, the Government introduced the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. That Bill was unamended and passed in this House, and will soon be in Committee in the other place.