Parliament was prorogued this evening. Prior to prorogation, remaining Bills that have passed all their stages receive Royal Assent. One of the Bills getting Royal Assent tonight was the Byles Bill – now the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. We thus have in place provision for the expulsion of any member sentenced to a term…
The House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill – the Byles Bill – is now one step closer to making it to the statute book. Introduced in the Commons by Dan Byles, it received its Second Reading in the Lords on 28 March. The Bill removes non-attending peers from membership of the House and brings…
Yesterday (Friday), the House gave an unopposed Second Reading to the House of Lords Reform (No. 2) Bill. You can read the debate here. The Bill has already been taken through the House of Commons by Dan Byles and was introduced in the Lords by Lord Steel. The Bill is a shortened version of the…
