Peerages: Letters Patent Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Peerages: Letters Patent

Lord Cromwell Excerpts
Thursday 17th November 2022

(1 year, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Cromwell Portrait Lord Cromwell (CB)
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If the Minister is unable to answer this question, could she at least reflect on it? Should a peerage be allocated to somebody who is a sitting MP and they subsequently blot their copybook, will the Government rescind their peerage, or ask the monarch to do so? Have we also completely now abandoned the process of two out, one in?

Baroness Neville-Rolfe Portrait Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con)
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On the point of sitting MPs, as I said yesterday, the sort of reports that have led to this debate are rumour and speculation. However, we will of course reflect on the debates we have and have had here—yesterday, today and tomorrow.