By the start of this one, the intervention of Lord Taylor of Warwick, a black Conservative in the House of Lords, had forced an abrupt change.
Former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman told a House of Commons select committee that the behaviour of Jack Warner, Worawi Makudi, Ricardo Teixeira and Nicolas Leoz was "below what would be ethically acceptable".
The bill, which has been backed by mental health charities and the Royal College of Physicians, builds on the work of Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, who launched a similar bill in the House of Lords in the previous Parliamentary session.
How can you be a member of the House of Lords if you are not a lord and if all the real ones are excluded?
This is the fourth time Lord Steel of Aikwood has tried to introduce a House of Lords reform bill in recent years.
The session ended on a light-hearted note with Leader of the House Lord Strathclyde telling peers there were no plans afoot to allow Parliament to elect a monarch and that, if they did, the electoral system used would not be proportional representation.
Leader of the House Lord Strathclyde said it was a suggestion to add to the "very many" that had been proposed in recent years.
At Lords questions on 27 January 2011, Lord Fowler, a former journalist and chairman of the House of Lords communications committee, said the News of the World had been "directly conspiring against the public".
He supported a successful amendment from Lord Cobbold, a cross-bencher, which accused the government of altering the upper house for party-political advantage.
He fancied being a politician, and being made a lord was a substitute, if a poor one, for not being elected to the House of Commons.
This looks like a continuation of Lord Steel's long guerrilla campaign to bring in a modest reform of the membership of the Upper House.
Earlier calls by Lord Sharkey for Mr Turing to be granted an official pardon were turned down in February, when Justice Minister Lord McNally dismissed a similar motion in the House of Lords.
There's simmering discontent at the increasing membership of the House of Lords and the former Liberal leader, Lord Steel of Aikwood, has put down a motion to block any more additions.
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The Royal Commission on the House of Lords is chaired by Lord Wakeham, a former Tory minister.
In February a House of Lords committee, chaired by Lord Jauncey, did clear the two men of blame in the crash.
In a exchange in the House of Lords, Lord Forsyth said the Scottish move would inevitably lead to extending the franchise to 16-year-olds in all elections throughout the United Kingdom - bringing politics into schools.
Mr Starmer signalled the change in stance in a letter to former West Midlands chief constable Lord Dear, who is seeking the law change in a House of Lords vote that is expected on Wednesday.
In their journey back from the Maze Prison, Lord Elton was at pains to dissuade the duke, a member of the House of Lords, from pursuing his idea of an Anglo-Irish 'condominium' over Northern Ireland.
Earlier on, Labour's Lord Grocott asked the government for its estimates of the cost of running a reformed House of Lords in the first transitional year of its operation.
Lord Lipsey - a member of a cross-party group opposed to an elected House of Lords - believes changes would come at too high a price in an age of spending cuts.
Former justice secretary Lord Falconer was committed to bringing a private members' bill in the House of Lords next year, he added.
Lord Marland has become the second Tory minister in the House of Lords to stand down in a matter of days.
He was given the honour in a ceremony at the Mansion House in the City of London, the Lord Mayor's official residence.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague will host a reception for foreign dignitaries at Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor of London.
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague is set to host a reception for foreign dignitaries at Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor of London.
WSJ: Global Figures to Pay Respects at Funeral for Margaret Thatcher in London
MPs favour Lord Wakeham's proposal for an upper house of great and good people, nominated by a committee of the same, with at most a third of its members elected.
The spokesman's comments were echoed in the House of Lords by Home Office Minister Lord Rooker who emphasised that there were a range of legal options available to the UK authorities.
At question time on 11 January 2010, Security Minister Lord West told the House of Lords that accreditation to the Games would replace the need for a visa, but that the same checks would be made.
Conservative peer Lord Newton raised the issue of parliamentary scrutiny, arguing that the House of Commons would not accept a secretary of state saying "nothing to do with me, Guv".
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