Standing Orders (Public Business)

Lord Gardiner of Kimble Excerpts

Thursday 23rd April 2026 Lords Chamber

Moved by

[The Senior Deputy Speaker]

That the standing orders relating to public business be amended as follows: Delete Standing Orders 3 (Peers by descent not to be introduced), 9 (Hereditary peers: by-elections), 10 (Register of hereditary peers), 77 (Committees for peerage claims), 78 (Claims of peerage), 79 (Claims of Irish peerages), 80 (Claims of Irish peerages in abeyance), and 81 (Report if improper arrangement entered into between co-heirs).

Standing Order 21B (Temporary exclusion)

Paragraph (6)(c), delete “9 or”.

Standing Order 36 (Balloted and time-limited debates)

Paragraph (1) delete “If a balloted debate or a time limited debate” and insert at the start “If a balloted debate, a time-limited debate or a debate in the Chamber on delegated legislation”.

Motion agreed.