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House of Lords: Reform

Question for Cabinet Office

UIN HL361, tabled on 25 July 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to include the rights of Church of England Bishops to sit in the House of Lords in their public consultation on the reform of the Lords.

Answered on

7 August 2024

Measures to modernise the constitution were announced in the King’s Speech, including legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. This will be the first step in wider reform to the second chamber, as set out in the manifesto.

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Cabinet Office