text_body: --- DIVISION TITLE ---
  
  House of Lords Reform - Exclusion of Hereditary Peers
  
  --- MOTION EFFECT ---
  
  <p>The majority Aye voters approved the idea, in principle, of bringing in a Bill to remove the remaining hereditary peers who sit in the House of Lords.<sup>[1]</sup></p>
  
  <p>This Bill would repeal <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1999/ukpga_19990034_en_1#l1g2">section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999</a>. Section 2 was a compromise to allow 92 hereditary peers to retain their seats in the Lords.</p>
  
  <ul><i><li>[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2003-07-08.898.1">David Winnick MP</a>, 8 July 2003, House of Commons</li></i></ul>
  
  
  
  
  
  --- COMMENTS AND NOTES ---
  
  (put thoughts and notes for other researchers here)
  