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<p>Including all those peers whose introduction or retirement has been advertised
in <em>House of Lords Business</em>, and assuming no other changes to the membership
of the House, as of 19 January 2016 there will be 249 members on the Conservative
benches, 212 members on the Labour benches, and 112 members on the Liberal Democrat
benches. This means that there will be 75 more peers on the benches of the largest
two opposition parties than on the Government benches.</p><p><strong><br></strong>That
will be 29 more peers than at the end of the 2009-10 session, when there were only
46 more peers on the benches of the largest two opposition parties than on the Government
benches.</p>
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