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* The imposition of a limit on membership at 600 members with twenty-five seats explicitly reserved for the {{wp|Lords Spiritual}}, 20% for {{wp|crossbenchers}}, and any amount of seats left that are supposed to be occupied by those who otherwise abstain from the {{wp|House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons}} provided to poltiical independents. | * The imposition of a limit on membership at 600 members with twenty-five seats explicitly reserved for the {{wp|Lords Spiritual}}, 20% for {{wp|crossbenchers}}, and any amount of seats left that are supposed to be occupied by those who otherwise abstain from the {{wp|House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons}} provided to poltiical independents. | ||
* The abolition or reduction of the composition of {{wp|hereditary peers}}. | * The abolition or reduction of the overall composition of {{wp|hereditary peers}} in the {{wp|House of Lords}}. | ||
* The imposition of a term limit for the {{wp|Lords Temporal}} in which those except for the {{wp|Lords Spiritual}} are re-appointed every ten years according to the results of the latest general election. Members must be free of any criminal convictions, aged no younger than fifty, and must mandatorily retire at the age of eighty. | * The imposition of a term limit for the {{wp|Lords Temporal}} in which those except for the {{wp|Lords Spiritual}} are re-appointed every ten years according to the results of the latest general election. Members must be free of any criminal convictions, aged no younger than fifty, and must mandatorily retire at the age of eighty. | ||
Revision as of 18:19, 22 January 2024
The Tilgner Report was a report published by Kerstin Tilgner, leader of the Hanoverian Union Party and the fifth Minister-President of Hanover. The report, which primarily concerns reforms surrounding the House of Lords, the United Kingdom's upper house, was published in light of calls for reform as well as for abolition of the institution which critics deem to be "outdated" and "undemocratic". Authored mostly by members of the Hanoverian Union Party, along with several additional members from both the Conservative and Labour parties, the report recommended several reforms for the House of Lords, namely:
- The imposition of a limit on membership at 600 members with twenty-five seats explicitly reserved for the Lords Spiritual, 20% for crossbenchers, and any amount of seats left that are supposed to be occupied by those who otherwise abstain from the House of Commons provided to poltiical independents.
- The abolition or reduction of the overall composition of hereditary peers in the House of Lords.
- The imposition of a term limit for the Lords Temporal in which those except for the Lords Spiritual are re-appointed every ten years according to the results of the latest general election. Members must be free of any criminal convictions, aged no younger than fifty, and must mandatorily retire at the age of eighty.
- The alignment of the composition of members of the House of Lords based on the most recent general election.
- The establishment of an independent Appointments and Honours Commission for the purpose of overseeing appointments to the House of Lords, replacing the Prime Minister's longstanding role in recommending appointments to the monarch. The commission would comprise ten members, five of whom are partisans and the remaining five being non-partisans, and are appointed on a non-renewable ten-year term.
Considered to be the most prominent set of reforms concerning the House of Lords, the report's recommendations were later accepted and subsequently became the main provisions for the House of Lords Reform Act 1980, marking the first major reform of the House of Lords in decades since the Parliament Act 1949 came into force.