Alan Reid
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(13 years, 5 months ago)
Commons Chamber5. What recent representations he has received on his proposals for reform of the House of Lords.
11. What representations he has received on his plans for the future composition of the House of Lords.
12. What recent representations he has received on his proposals for reform of the House of Lords.
The Prime Minister gave an unambiguous answer to the question about the Parliament Act at Prime Minister’s questions last week. Not only was the commitment made by all three parties in their manifestos, but it is one that we entered unambiguously into the coalition agreement.
One of the advantages of the system that we are introducing, as explained in the White Paper, is that it will permit political parties to take active steps, in so far as they wish to do so, to use elections to the other place to increase the diversity of representation in Westminster as a whole.