House of Lords data dashboard: Peerage creations
This page provides interactive data on the creation of life peerages in the House of Lords.

This House of Lords Library briefing examines the background to a proposal that information should be published alongside every Act showing the length of time spent on it at each stage in the parliamentary process to highlight the level of scrutiny it had received.
Publishing Statistics on the Time Spent on Parliamentary Proceedings on Each Part of an Act (108 KB , PDF)
Lord Butler of Brockwell (Crossbench), a former Cabinet Secretary, has tabled a question for short debate to ask what steps the Government is planning to take to include statistics on the time spent on parliamentary proceedings on each part of an Act in the explanatory notes on Acts of Parliament. A proposal along these lines was put forward by Daniel Greenberg, a former Parliamentary Counsel, in a paper published by the Centre for Policy Studies think tank in April 2016. Daniel Greenberg argued that line-by-line scrutiny of legislation in both Houses had “become diluted to such a degree that it can no longer be described as taking place”, and as a result there were “often lengthy and significant parts of a bill that receive no detailed scrutiny at all at any point in its parliamentary passage”. To address this, he suggested that the following information should be published in respect of each bill, in both the explanatory notes issued when the bill arrived in the second House and in those published once it received royal assent:
Different arrangements apply in the two Houses of Parliament for the timetabling of proceedings on legislation. In the House of Commons, the majority of government bills are subject to programming. Programme orders provide a timetable for the conclusion of proceedings on a bill. They may specify by what date a stage should be completed, or how long is to be spent on a stage. A programme order may contain ‘knives’, or deadlines relating to business on particular parts of the bill; when a ‘knife’ falls, only specified decisions may be taken, and it may not be possible to debate or decide on certain clauses or amendments. In the House of Lords, there is no formal equivalent to programming. Informal negotiations take place through the ‘usual channels’ on how much time to allocate to legislative business, but their deals are not set in stone and can be altered if the House deals with business more or less quickly than expected. There have been criticisms that programming in the Commons means that not all amendments and clauses are necessarily debated, and that there is too much legislation to allow time for proper scrutiny in either House.
The House of Lords Constitution Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the legislative process one part of which will focus specifically on the passage of legislation through Parliament. The Committee intends to take evidence on this topic in the 2017-18 parliamentary session.
Publishing Statistics on the Time Spent on Parliamentary Proceedings on Each Part of an Act (108 KB , PDF)
This page provides interactive data on the creation of life peerages in the House of Lords.
In January 2025 the House of Lords Constitution Committee published a report on the responsibility of the government (the executive) to oversee the constitution. It concluded that the UK’s constitutional arrangements would benefit from several improved safeguards, such as the appointment of a senior minister to advise on constitutional matters and for advisory bodies to be put on a statutory footing.
The Lords Library has drawn together lists of members who have held selected positions in public life. This non-exhaustive collection provides an introduction to the diversity of experience in the House of Lords, including political careers in central, local, devolved and international settings; senior positions in defence, public service, policing and law; and leadership in science, education, culture and sport.