Oral Question·Home Office
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 26 March 2024Answered: 15 April 2024
Asked by
Justin Madders
Labour — Ellesmere 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.