The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill will remove the 92-peer exemption and abolish the jurisdiction of the House of ...

During this debate, members will consider two motions against the ratification of the UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago, which would transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, ...

Members of the House of Lords begin their further examination of the Renters' Rights Bill, in report stage on Tuesday 1 July. The Renters' Rights Bill seeks to abolish fixed term assured tenancies and ...

The UK Parliament Study Programme (UKPSP) brings together parliamentary staff from around the world to learn about the ...

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The Planning and Infrastructure Bill would change the law and streamline the legislation surrounding the construction of new homes and critical infrastructure. Some of the bill's provisions include: ...

Magna Carta is Latin for ‘great charter' and the term was first used in 1217 to distinguish it from the Charter of the Forest, a document that also set out limits on the king's administration, this ...

The gradual collapse of the Charles I's government prior to the Civil War enabled the House of Lords to assume a greater judicial role, and although the House was abolished in 1649 it was restored to ...

Lord Brougham and Vaux, appointed Lord Chancellor in 1832, energetically pursued additional changes to the judicial role of the House of Lords. He further increased the number of hours in which the ...

The February 2007 White Paper on House of Lords reform, which proposed a partly elected and partly appointed Chamber, included a proposal that every retiring Justice of the Supreme Court should be ...

In the 1890s Stone's reputation as a photographer led him to travel the world. During this time he travelled with the Royal Astronomical Society to Brazil and also visited the West Indies, South ...

The Members' Fund was set up by the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1939. The Fund is not a pension fund and was initially set up to provide for discretionary grants to be made by the Trustees to ...