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Members of the House of Lords


This is a list of members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

26 bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man). Under the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, female bishops take precedence over men until May 2025 to become new Lords Spiritual for the 21 seats allocated by seniority.

Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999, and remaining law life peers.

There are also peers who remain members of the House, but are currently ineligible to sit and vote.

The following peers have been granted a leave of absence for the remainder of the session or the current parliament under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords.

Under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, holders of certain judicial offices who are peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while in office. The following peers are currently subject to this provision.


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