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date	11/01/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Peers: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to amending the Letters Patent to limit the terms of new appointments to the House of Lords to 15 years.
tabling member printed	Lord Steel of Aikwood
uin	HL4657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>Any such amendments to the Letters Patent of new members of the House of Lords would require primary legislation. The Government has been clear that comprehensive reform of this House, which requires legislation, is not a priority for the current Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 25/01/2018 11:29:11 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	949 label Biography information for Lord Steel of Aikwood

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date	23/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Peers: Public Appointments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there is a moratorium on the appointment of new peers by the House of Lords Appointment Commission; whether the Commission has recommended any new peers since the last set of appointments in October 2015; and whether it plans to appoint any new peers in 2017.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL6291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>There has been no change to the appointments process, which is that appointments to the House of Lords continue to be made by the Sovereign on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. This includes those nominations for non party political peerages made on the advice of the House of Lords Appointments Commission. There have been no changes made to the Commission's remit. Any future announcements about appointments to the House of Lords will be made in the usual way.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 06/04/2017 14:28:59 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb