Question follow-through · 53539
Life Peers: Vetting
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides to the House of Lords Appointments Commission on the processes to follow when vetting peerages.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department provides to the House of Lords Appointments Commission on the processes to follow when vetting peerages.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
The House of Lords Appointments Commission is an independent, advisory non-departmental public body. The Commission is responsible for vetting all nominations for life peerages for propriety and advises the Prime Minister on these matters. Information abo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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