House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill: Consideration of Lords Amendments

On 4 September 2025 the House of Commons considered amendments made by the House of Lords to the Bill.

The Government promised in 2024 to legislate to remove the last remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords and this Bill delivers on that promise. Earlier this year, Peers voted in favour of making four amendments, which, in the Paymaster General’s words “serve to undermine the core purpose of the Bill, or go well beyond the Bill’s intended remit”. All of them were rejected today and removed from the Bill:

The first Motion to disagree was the Lords Amendment 1 which reduces the numbers of hereditary peers more gradually:  Ayes 336, Noes 77.

Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 2 preventing unpaid Ministers of the Crown from being eligible for membership of the House of Lords: Ayes 331, Noes 73.

Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3 enabling the Sovereign to confer a life peerage, either with or without an entitlement to sit and vote in the House of Lords: Ayes 338, Noes 74.

All the motions put forward by the Lords were rejected and the Bill now returns to the House of Lords for further consideration.