Sentences with phrase «say elected peers»
(David Cameron is reported today to say elected peers will not have salaries.
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The peers say with opposition peers being more assertive there is confusion about the Lords» powers and «considerable uncertainty about its relationship with the elected House of Commons».
The main report by the joint committee of peers and MPs published on Monday broadly welcomes the coalition's proposals, but calls for a post-legislative referendum and says «a concordat» will have to be agreed between the two elected houses on their respective powers.
He says that if, after the first wave of peers is elected in 2015, MPs want the second or third stage of Lords elections (ie, the ones in 2020 and 2025) to be subject to «some kind of trigger», then he would be prepared to look at it.
Those peers who are elected could consider themselves more legitimate than the 20 % who are not elected, he says.
16 July 2003: Responding to the report by the joint committee on Lords reform, the government says that there is no consensus in parliament for introducing any elected element into the second chamber, only for removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers and establishing a new independent appointments commission.
Speaking out against the bill the Earl of Caithness said axing hereditary peers would leave the Lords with an appointed system only and delay progress towards a democratically elected upper house.
He said a 15 year timetable has been set out for the reform, with peers elected for 15 year terms introduced in three tranches, so there was no need to rush into decisions on Lords powers.