The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill will remove the 92-peer exemption and abolish the jurisdiction of the House of ...

Members of the House of Lords begin their further examination of the Renters' Rights Bill, in report stage on Tuesday 1 July. The Renters' Rights Bill seeks to abolish fixed term assured tenancies and ...

During this debate, members will consider two motions against the ratification of the UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago, which would transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, ...

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill would change the law and streamline the legislation surrounding the construction of new homes and critical infrastructure. Some of the bill's provisions include: ...

The UK Parliament Study Programme (UKPSP) brings together parliamentary staff from around the world to learn about the ...

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The gradual collapse of the Charles I's government prior to the Civil War enabled the House of Lords to assume a greater judicial role, and although the House was abolished in 1649 it was restored to ...

Lord Brougham and Vaux, appointed Lord Chancellor in 1832, energetically pursued additional changes to the judicial role of the House of Lords. He further increased the number of hours in which the ...

The February 2007 White Paper on House of Lords reform, which proposed a partly elected and partly appointed Chamber, included a proposal that every retiring Justice of the Supreme Court should be ...

MPs and members of the House of Lords are required to declare certain financial interests. These are recorded in the Register of Members' Financial Interests and the Register of Lords' Interests ...

These pages from the first House of Lords Journal show a Royal family tree from Egbert of Wessex, (traditionally listed as the first King of England) to the Tudors.

The Members' Fund was set up by the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1939. The Fund is not a pension fund and was initially set up to provide for discretionary grants to be made by the Trustees to ...