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    UK-Ukraine 100-year partnership agreement: House of Lords International Agreements Committee report

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    UK prime ministers may draw up a resignation honours list on their departure from office, in which they may request that the reigning monarch grant honours to any number of people. Such honours may include peerages, knighthoods and damehoods, or other awards. However, not all have chosen to draw up such a list. This briefing lists those prime ministers who have requested that peerages be conferred on their departure from office.

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    Constitution Committee report on the governance of the union