House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Debate

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Department: Leader of the House
Lord Trefgarne Portrait Lord Trefgarne (Con)
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My Lords, I hate to interrupt my noble friend, but I wonder if he has seen the flashing light.

Lord Swire Portrait Lord Swire (Con)
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I am most grateful—I have reached the advisory time and I shall take your Lordships’ advice and begin my wind-up immediately. I imagine the meeting will be a look at local government, not the regional assemblies championed by Gordon Brown and Lord Prescott. We need to look at where want to have unitaries, district councils or county councils. Let us look at all this, but let us also look at a bigger review. The Government should look at Lords reform in a wider sense when we look at constitutional reform. It should not be done piecemeal, and I hope that they will rise to this occasion.