division_name: House of Lords Bill - Exclusion of hereditary peers
motion: <p>Considered in Committee [Progress, 15 February]. 
  
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   Amendment proposed [15 February]:  No. 2, in page 1, line 6, at the end to add the words
   
  'except that--
   
  (a) 75 hereditary peers shall be elected as members of the House of Lords in accordance with subsection (2).
   
  (b) 14 hereditary peers shall be elected as members of the House of Lords in accordance with subsection (3).
   
  (c) the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal shall be members of the House of Lords.
   
  (2) The electors for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) shall be the holders of a hereditary peerage.
   
  (3) The electors for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) shall be the members of the House of Lords.
   
  (4) The Secretary of State may by order make such provision about the conduct of the elections under this section as he considers appropriate.
   
  (5) No order under this section shall be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.'.--[ Mrs. Laing. ]
  <p>Question again proposed,  That the amendment be made.
   
  
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  It is hardly a state secret that something like that will happen. It is hardly hanging in the balance, with everything to play for. The Government's White Paper states that such an amendment may well be tabled in the other place. There has been speculation on the subject in all the newspapers and throughout the media. That being the case, why cannot we have a debate now, in the Committee of this House, before the matter is debated in another place? The right hon. Member for Hartlepool accuses us of filibustering when hardly a word has been said.
  <p>Question put,  That the amendment be made:--
  <p>The Committee divided:  Ayes 125, Noes 326.
  