To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker which peers would cease to be members of the House if (1) the phased retirement age proposed in the Retirement and Participation Committee’s report, published in July, was implemented by 8 July 2029 and each year thereafter until the target retirement age of 80 is...

To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker which peers would cease to be members of the House if (1) the phased retirement age proposed in the Retirement and Participation Committee’s report, published in July, was implemented by 8 July 2029 and each year thereafter until the target retirement age of 80 is...

To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker which peers would cease to be members of the House if (1) the 20 per cent minimum participation requirement proposed in the Retirement and Participation Committee’s report, published in July, was implemented by 8 July 2029 based on current attendance data and projections, and...

To ask The Senior Deputy Speaker which peers would cease to be members of the House if (1) the 20 per cent minimum participation requirement proposed in the Retirement and Participation Committee’s report, published in July, was implemented by 8 July 2029 based on current attendance data and projections, and...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits for reducing the normal pension age for ambulance workers under the NHS Pension Scheme to bring it into line with the retirement age for police and fire service workers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits for reducing the normal pension age for ambulance workers under the NHS Pension Scheme to bring it into line with the retirement age for police and fire service workers.

The Clerk of the Parliaments informed the House that she had received written notice from Lord Shipley under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 stating that he would retire from the House on 31 October.

The Clerk of the Parliaments informed the House that she had received written notice from Lord Shipley under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 stating that he would retire from the House on 31 October.

Lords motion to take note of the report from the Retirement and Participation Committee (HL 32). Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to take note of the report from the Retirement and Participation Committee (HL 32). Agreed to on question.

My Lords, it is probably quite appropriate that we are going to discuss this immediately after we have heard several comments about us being a self-governing House, because it enters into this as well.

I start by thanking those members of the committee who gave up so much time to put...

My Lords, it is probably quite appropriate that we are going to discuss this immediately after we have heard several comments about us being a self-governing House, because it enters into this as well.

I start by thanking those members of the committee who gave up so much time to put...

My Lords, it might be helpful for me to intervene at this point and set out the position of the Official Opposition, although I assure the House that I will listen carefully and weigh every contribution, including those from the many who may disagree with me. First and foremost, I...

My Lords, it might be helpful for me to intervene at this point and set out the position of the Official Opposition, although I assure the House that I will listen carefully and weigh every contribution, including those from the many who may disagree with me. First and foremost, I...

My Lords, I strongly support the report, and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, not only on her introduction to it but on her excellent chairing of our Select Committee, which it was a great privilege to sit on. Like her, I thank the committee staff, whose...

My Lords, I strongly support the report, and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, not only on her introduction to it but on her excellent chairing of our Select Committee, which it was a great privilege to sit on. Like her, I thank the committee staff, whose...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter. I will not repeat what she said, except to say how well chaired we were as a committee and to give my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton. I thank Judith Brooke and her...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter. I will not repeat what she said, except to say how well chaired we were as a committee and to give my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton. I thank Judith Brooke and her...

My Lords, I am grateful to the committee for its report and for the serious and thoughtful way in which it has approached the difficult question of the future size and composition of this House.

My right reverend friend the Bishop of Manchester, the Convenor of the Lords Spiritual, made a...

My Lords, I am grateful to the committee for its report and for the serious and thoughtful way in which it has approached the difficult question of the future size and composition of this House.

My right reverend friend the Bishop of Manchester, the Convenor of the Lords Spiritual, made a...

My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Taylor on her skill, good humour and patience, not least with me, and I thank our fellow committee members. I actually found myself agreeing with the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, who will speak after me today; I was quite astonished on...

My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Taylor on her skill, good humour and patience, not least with me, and I thank our fellow committee members. I actually found myself agreeing with the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, who will speak after me today; I was quite astonished on...

My Lords, I hugely enjoyed sitting on the committee with the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett. In fact, as he pointed out, many of his views were a revelation to me; they are ones with which I wholeheartedly agree.

I am going to speak up in favour of older Members of this...

My Lords, I hugely enjoyed sitting on the committee with the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett. In fact, as he pointed out, many of his views were a revelation to me; they are ones with which I wholeheartedly agree.

I am going to speak up in favour of older Members of this...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, for introducing her sensible report that introduces retiral. Speaking personally, I will do what is recommended in the report when my time comes to fulfil the retirement...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, for introducing her sensible report that introduces retiral. Speaking personally, I will do what is recommended in the report when my time comes to fulfil the retirement...

It is a privilege to have served on the committee that produced the report that we are debating today. I thank my noble friend Lady Taylor of Bolton for her exemplary introduction and even more for her remarkable skill in drawing out a unanimous conclusion from the committee and the...

It is a privilege to have served on the committee that produced the report that we are debating today. I thank my noble friend Lady Taylor of Bolton for her exemplary introduction and even more for her remarkable skill in drawing out a unanimous conclusion from the committee and the...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, and it gives me an opportunity to thank him and the other members of the committee for the work which they put in under the obviously skilful chairmanship—if I can use that word—of the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, and it gives me an opportunity to thank him and the other members of the committee for the work which they put in under the obviously skilful chairmanship—if I can use that word—of the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of...

My Lords, I strongly welcome the report. I congratulate my noble friend and her colleagues on producing a unanimous,

thoughtful and forward-looking report, which I hope we can, in effect, endorse today and, in due course, adopt its recommendations.

Taking on the implementation of a manifesto commitment ourselves is surely the...

My Lords, I strongly welcome the report. I congratulate my noble friend and her colleagues on producing a unanimous,

thoughtful and forward-looking report, which I hope we can, in effect, endorse today and, in due course, adopt its recommendations.

Taking on the implementation of a manifesto commitment ourselves is surely the...

My Lords, I thank the committee for its work and its report, and I note the limits of its remit. I support the principle of a retirement age. As an unelected House, there is good reason for us to put in place boundaries where the electorate may decide our fate...

My Lords, I thank the committee for its work and its report, and I note the limits of its remit. I support the principle of a retirement age. As an unelected House, there is good reason for us to put in place boundaries where the electorate may decide our fate...

My Lords, I agree that the committee has done a very good job in answering the questions that it was given. The report is thorough and persuasive, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, and her committee for their work. She and I worked together on the Lord Speaker’s...

My Lords, I agree that the committee has done a very good job in answering the questions that it was given. The report is thorough and persuasive, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, and her committee for their work. She and I worked together on the Lord Speaker’s...

My Lords, I have come to listen as much as to contribute. I particularly look forward to the contributions from the next three speakers on my side of the House who, like me, will all be leaving on 8 July 2029, in my case after nine years of service in...

My Lords, I have come to listen as much as to contribute. I particularly look forward to the contributions from the next three speakers on my side of the House who, like me, will all be leaving on 8 July 2029, in my case after nine years of service in...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Davies, if I am still around, I will leave your Lordships’ House in July 2029. I shall do so with regret and equanimity. I assure your Lordships that the few observations that I am about to make do not spring from self-interest.

I pay...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Davies, if I am still around, I will leave your Lordships’ House in July 2029. I shall do so with regret and equanimity. I assure your Lordships that the few observations that I am about to make do not spring from self-interest.

I pay...