Appointment Of Peers To Government Office

EDM number 254 in 1998-99, proposed by Robert Marshall-Andrews on 28/01/1999.

That this House notes that since 1974, 140 Government posts have been held by unelected members of the House of Lords; and resolves that as part of the wider reform of the House of Lords, such appointments should cease and that the terms of reference of the Royal Commission should be enlarged to enable such a recommendation to be made.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.