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Debate between David Wright and Nick Clegg(11 years, 8 months ago)
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The Deputy Prime Minister
I am sure that everybody on both sides of the House would agree with the hon. Lady’s sentiment. The Foreign Secretary has already spoken out in reaction to the tests that took place in North Korea. They not only threaten peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and internationally, but are in direct violation of three UN Security Council resolutions. In accordance with one of those resolutions, we are consulting urgently with other members of the Security Council to determine what robust action we will take in response.
David Wright (Telford) (Lab)
Since 2010, this Government have created 43 peers per year on average. That is more on average than under any of the last five Prime Ministers. Why?
The Deputy Prime Minister
As I have said, if one looks across the years, under the last Labour Government more than 170 Labour peers were created, which is just under half of the total. We have been very clear that our preference is a smaller and more legitimate House of Lords. That has not come about, so we will make appointments to the House of Lords in line with the terms of the coalition agreement.