In a previous post, I was asked if I could provide a link to a particular Bill, in this case the Justice and Security Bill. Anyone wishing to access a Bill being considered by Parliament can do so by visiting the Parliament website and clicking on the link ‘Bills and legislation’. You can then click on…
Although the Commons rose last week for the summer recess, the House of Lords is sitting until Wednesday. The work the House is doing this week is well adumbrated by the BBC’s Mark D’Arcy in his blog. Today, the House is in committee on the Justice and Security Bill. The deliberations are notable for the peers who…
This week’s quiz focuses on women and the House of Lords. As regular readers will know, women were first admitted to the House of Lords in 1958 under the Life Peerages Act passed in that year. Women now comprise 22 per cent of the membership (the same proportion as in the Commons, where women were first…
The proposals to allow same-sex marriage clearly get some people excited. When I did a post on my blog about it, it attracted the most comments I have ever received. One of my points was about the insularity of those opposing the proposals. I was therefore very interested in the findings of a study just…
The House of Lords has received a lot of attention in the past few weeks as a result of the Government’s House of Lords Reform Bill. I am almost tempted to ask as a quiz question if anyone can identify a newspaper (or even television) story about the House of Lords that has not been…
