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List of members of the House of Lords may refer to: 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
Reform of the House of Lords has been a part of successive government policies since the early 19th century. [2] The last major change was made in the House of Lords Act 1999 under the first Blair ministry, which provided that: [2] No-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
No further appeal lay from the House of Lords, although the House of Lords could refer a "preliminary question" to the European Court of Justice in cases involving an element of European Union law, and a case could be brought at the European Court of Human Rights if the House of Lords did not provide a satisfactory remedy in cases where the ...
She sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. [22] [23] Her appointment, at the age of 30, made her the youngest member of the House of Lords. [24] She was the youngest person ever to receive a life peerage until Carmen Smith, Baroness Smith of Llanfaes, was appointed at the age of 27 in 2024. [25] Owen was introduced to the Lords on ...
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Members of the British House of Lords. It includes Members of the British House of Lords that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Since his introduction to the House of Lords in 1992, Lord Berkeley has served as Opposition Spokesman for Transport 1996–97 and Opposition Whip 1996–97. [2] He is the Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group and has tabled many questions in the House of Lords on Transport policy, including about bicycles on trains. [3]
Whilst the House of Lords of the United Kingdom is the upper chamber of Parliament and has government ministers, for many centuries it had a judicial function.It functioned as a court of first instance for the trials of peers and for impeachments, and as a court of last resort in the United Kingdom and prior, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of England.