Oral QuestionCabinet Office

What recent progress his Department has made on reform of the House of Lords.

Tabled: 16 January 2025Answered: 23 January 2025

Asked by

Mark Sewards

LabourLeeds South West and Morley

Answering Minister

the Minister for the Cabinet Office

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.