A
BILL
TO
Make further provision to limit the size of the legislature by ensuring that the
number of peers entitled to vote in the House of Lords does not exceed the
number of parliamentary constituencies; to introduce a statutory limit on the
number of Ministers, Whips and Parliamentary Private Secretaries in each
House of Parliament; and to set a maximum proportion of Ministers, Whips
and Parliamentary Private Secretaries in the total membership of each House
of Parliament.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Not more than 600 persons shall be entitled to sit and vote in the House of
Lords at any one time.
5Section 2(1) of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 is amended by
substituting “eighty” for “ninety-five”.
Not more than 25 persons being the holders of the office of Parliamentary
Private Secretary shall be entitled to sit and vote in the House of Commons at
10any one time.
Not more than 10% of those persons who are entitled to sit and vote in the
House of Lords at any one time shall be the holders of Ministerial offices
specified in Schedule 2 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975.
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Not more than 3% of those persons who are entitled to sit and vote in the
House of Lords at any one time shall be holders of the office of Parliamentary
Private Secretary.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Parliament (Amendment) Act 2011.
(2) This Act comes into force on 1 May 2015.
(3) This Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.