ANNEX B
GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE: A MODEL TIMETABLE
Date |
Hereditary
|
Life (1958 Act) |
Elected
|
Appointments Commission |
Bishops and Law Lords
|
Total |
Notes |
2002 (Feb) |
91 |
555 |
0 |
0
|
54 |
700 |
|
2003 (depends on legislative timetable
|
0 |
c 537 |
0
|
0 |
54 |
c 591
|
Second chamber reform act comes into effect
|
c.2005 (After Gen Election) |
0
|
250 |
105 |
50
|
54 |
459 |
a. First direct election
b. First indirect election among life peers
c. First appointments by commission
|
c.2009 (After Gen Election) |
0
|
100 |
210 |
90
|
0 |
400 |
a. Second direct election
b. Second indirect election among life peers
c. 40 new appointments by commission
|
c.2013 (After Gen Election) |
0
|
0 |
210 |
140
|
0 |
350 |
a. Third direct election
b. 50 new appointments by commission
|
NOTE: Assumptions
1. General Elections occurring at four-year intervals
2. Elected members elected in halves
3. First direct elections for second chamber
would take place alongside the next General Election, and continue
to be held alongside General Elections.
4. 60 per cent of members would be elected by
time of c.2013 General Election, with 40 per cent appointed by
the Appointments Commission
5. Hereditary peers would leave the second chamber
when the second chamber reform act takes effect.
6. All life peers would stay in the second chamber
until the next General Election
7. There would be two indirect elections among
life peers, held just before General Elections, with 250 remaining
after the c.2005 General election and 100 after the c.2009 General
Election.
8. Appointments to be made in instalments, but
represented here in large blocks for simplicity of presentation.
9. Law Lords and Bishops would leave the second
chamber at the c.2009 General Election.
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