House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

A Bill to remove the remaining connection between hereditary peerage and membership of the House of Lords; to make provision about resignation from the House of Lords; to abolish the jurisdiction of the House of Lords in relation to claims to hereditary peerages; and for connected purposes.

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23 Jul 2025
Ping: Pong
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)
(9 amendments)
9 Jul 2025
Lords: Third
HL Bill 122 (as amended on Report)
(8 amendments)
1 Apr 2025
Lords: Report
HL Bill 49 (as brought from the Commons)
(48 amendments)
Awaiting digital version of this Bill to be published by Parliament
13 Nov 2024
Lords: Committee
HL Bill 49 (as brought from the Commons)
(255 amendments)
5 Sep 2024
Commons: Committee
Bill 007 2024-25 (as introduced)
(49 amendments)

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Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)
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Exclusion of remaining hereditary peers
 
 
Omit section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999 (exception to exclusion of
 
 
hereditary peers from membership of House of Lords).
 
2
Claims to hereditary peerages
 
 
(1)
The jurisdiction of the House of Lords in relation to claims to hereditary
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peerages is abolished.
 
 
(2)
For the purposes of this section a claim to a hereditary peerage includes a
 
 
claim to a hereditary peerage in abeyance.
 
3
Consequential amendments
 
 
(1)
In the Peerage Act 1963 —
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(a)
in section 1 (2) (disclaimer of certain hereditary peerages), omit the
 
 
words from “; and no such instrument” to the end;
 
 
(b)
omit section 4 (Scottish peerages) and the italic heading before it;
 
 
(c)
omit section 6 (peeresses in own right).
 
 
(2)
In the House of Lords Act 1999 —
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(a)
omit section 3(2) (disqualifications in relation to House of Commons
 
 
applicable to hereditary peers);
 
 
(b)
omit paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (amendment of Peerage Act 1963).
 
 
(3)
In the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 , in section 42 (tax
 
 
status of members of House of Lords: transitional provision)—
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(a)
omit subsections (3) and (4);
 
 
(b)
in subsection (5) , omit “If M is not such a person,”;
 

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(c)
in subsection (8) —
 
 
(i)
omit “or M succeeds to a peerage”;
 
 
(ii)
omit the words from “If subsection (3)(a)” to the end;
 
 
(d)
omit subsection (9).
 
 
(4)
In the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 , in section 4 (effect of ceasing to be
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a member)—
 
 
(a)
in subsection (3) , omit “, by virtue of a hereditary peerage”;
 
 
(b)
omit subsection (4);
 
 
(c)
in subsection (5) , omit “other than a hereditary peer”;
 
 
(d)
omit subsection (7).
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4
Extent and commencement
 
 
(1)
An amendment or repeal made by section 1 or 3 has the same extent as the
 
 
provision amended or repealed.
 
 
(2)
Section 2 , this section and section 5 extend to England and Wales, Scotland
 
 
and Northern Ireland.
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(3)
This Act comes into force at the end of the Session of Parliament in which
 
 
this Act is passed.
 
 
(4)
Accordingly, any writ of summons issued for the present Parliament in right
 
 
of a hereditary peerage is of no effect after that Session.
 
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Short title
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This Act may be cited as the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2024.
 
Amendments
Amendment 1

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

Leave out Clause 1 and insert the following new Clause- "Abolition of by-elections for hereditary peers (1) Section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999 (exception from section 1) is amended as follows. (2) For subsection (2) substitute - "(2) No more than 87 people at any one time shall be excepted from section 1." (3) For subsection (4) substitute “(4) Any vacancy resulting from the death, retirement, resignation or expulsion of an excepted person under subsection (2) after the day on which the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2025 comes into force is not to be filled by further exception.”””

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 2

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause- "Unsalaried Ministers (1) No one who is a Minister of the Crown shall be eligible for membership of the House of Lords unless they are in receipt of, or have been offered, a salary under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975. (2) This section does not apply to Ministers of the Crown appointed before the day on which this section comes into effect."

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 3

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause- "Rights of life peers to sit in the House of Lords (1) Section 1 of the Life Peerages Act 1958 (power to confer life peerages) is amended as follows. (2) At the end of subsection (1) insert “, and, as the case may be, the incidents specified in subsection (2A) of this section”. (3) Omit from “and” in subsection (2)(a) to the end of subsection (2)(b). (4) After subsection (2), insert – "(2A) A peerage conferred under this section may, if the letters patent so state, during the life of the person on whom it is conferred, entitle him, subject to subsection (4) of this section, to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords and sit and vote therein accordingly, and shall expire on his death."

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 4

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause- "Resignation In section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 (resignation), after subsection (4) insert- “(5) Where a notice under this section is given and signed by a person on behalf of a peer who lacks capacity to give or sign the notice, the notice must be given and signed in accordance with Standing Orders of the House.”

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 5

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

Clause 4, page 2, line 12, after “section 1” insert “, (Resignation)”

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 6

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

Clause 4, page 2, line 15, at end insert- "(2A) Section (Resignation), this section and section 5 come into force on the day on which this Act is passed."

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 7

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

Clause 4, page 2, line 16, leave out “This Act comes” and insert “The other provisions of this Act come”

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 8

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

Clause 4, page 2, line 18, leave out subsection (4)

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0

Amendment 9

Tabled: 23 Jul 2025
Bill 295 2024-25 (Lords Amendments)

NO DECISION has been made on this amendment

Title, line 2, after “Lords;” insert “to make provision about resignation from the House of Lords;”

Type: Backbencher

Signatures: 0