It will be interesting to see how the Lords reacts, and how the parties vote.
The Lords point to two core policies that they say need to be in place.
The money is there from institutional investors for these energy projects, say the Lords.
He predicted that the legislation would receive substantial opposition when it arrived in the House of Lords.
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Peers then considered business of the House motions and the joint committee report on Lords reform.
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill now goes before the House of Lords.
Lords of the Realm was a combination turned based strategy game, real time battle game.
He promised to provided a written House of Lords reply to the peers' concerns.
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He now had three "pulpits" - the Church, the House of Lords and the banking commission.
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And the House of Lords, incidentally, will almost certainly acquire members deputed from Scotland and Wales.
The bill was given an unopposed second reading, as is customary in the House of Lords.
Up to now the Lords, dominated by independent cross-benchers, have chosen to defeat governments only sparingly.
You can watch the second part of the Lords third reading debate here.
Do you think he should automatically go to the House of Lords after all of this?
But, as a peer Lord Irvine is answerable to the Lords and not the Commons.
Where Labour-held seats disappear, natural retirements or the House of Lords may offer a way out.
The 64-year-old said he felt "very honoured to be appointed" to the House of Lords.
Labour had also managed to secure a debate on the issue in the Lords.
But they insisted pushing ahead with Lords reform was in the best interests of the country.
It currently has 12 MEPs and 31 councillors, with three peers in the House of Lords.
The bill now returns to the Lords for peers to consider the changes made by MPs.
So the government would then have to use the Parliament Act to over-ride the Lords.
The exchanges came during the daily half-hour question session in the Lords on 16 January 2012.
E-commerce pioneer and government adviser Martha Lane Fox is to join the House of Lords.
Nick Clegg rejected the plans, previously backed by Lib Dems, after Lords reform was abandoned.
In the Lords, it's peers' turn to rush through the emergency Police (Detention and Bail) Bill.
In the Lords, meanwhile, Labour's Lady Gale raises the "One Billion Rising" campaign at question time.
The government "remain committed to making progress" on changing the composition of the Lords, he stressed.
The House of Lords is surely the balance between the elected parliament and the people.
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