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The House of Lords [a] is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [5] Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. [6] One of the oldest extant institutions in the world, its origins lie in the early 11th century and the emergence of bicameralism in the 13th century. [7 ...
Minister Portrait Office Portfolio The Rt Hon The Baroness Smith of Basildon PC: Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal: Management and delivery of the Government’s legislative programme (through the House of Lords) and facilitating the passage of individual bills; Leading the House (in the Chamber and as a key member of domestic committees to do with procedure ...
The following are lists of members of the House of Lords: List of current members of the House of Lords; List of life peerages; List of excepted hereditary peers; List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
Former Lord Speaker, former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee and former MP Lord Fox: 11 September 2014 Liberal Democrat Life peer PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive Baroness Fox of Buckley: 14 September 2020 Non-affiliated Life peer Former MEP for North West England (2019–2020)
Apart from retired Lords Spiritual and the surviving hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999, including the Marquess of Cholmondeley who was exempt from the 1999 Act by virtue of his position as Lord Great Chamberlain until the accession of Charles III in September 2022, [1] there are a number of living peers who have permanently ceased to be members of the House.
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The Life Peerages Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on 21 November 1957, and its second reading took place on 3 and 5 December 1957. Committee stage was taken on 17 and 18 December 1957. The bill was reported without amendment and given a third reading on 30 January 1958.
The Lord Collins of Highbury (also Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, a whip and Equalities) (unpaid) Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Hamish Falconer (unpaid) Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean: The Baroness Chapman of Darlington