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Mark Valladares

This week in the Lords – 13-16 April 2026

By Mark Valladares | Mon 13th April 2026 - 3:02 pm

it looks like a relatively gentle week in the Lords, although there will be an opportunity for the Lords to ask the Commons to think again… again… on the Victims and Courts Bill and the Crime and Policing Bill. Yes, it’s ping-pong time in the Lords…

Bills

Today sees Day 3 of the Report stage of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill. Kath Pinnock has two amendments down promoting the Town and Parish Council sector, whilst John Shipley and Shaffaq Mohammed are attempting to persuade the Government that there are alternatives to the “strong leader” model of local government that Labour are so fond of. Meanwhile, former LDV team member, Mark Pack has an amendment in trying to take the Government further from the supplementary vote to the alternative vote for local government elections.

The Grenfell Tower Memorial (Expenditure) Bill and the Ministerial Salaries (Amendment) Bill will both have their Second Readings (and all subsequent stages!) on Tuesday.

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Mark Valladares

By-election result – House of Lords

By Mark Valladares | Thu 15th June 2023 - 9:13 am

We covered the announcement of the candidates to fill a hereditary peer vacancy on the Liberal Democrat benches in the Lords a fortnight or so ago and we now have a result.

212 Peers voted as follows:

  • Lord Belhaven and Stenton – 34 votes
  • Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor – 55 votes
  • Earl Russell – 123 votes

Accordingly, John Russell is the newest member of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party in the Lords, and we wish him well.

* Mark Valladares is the Lords Correspondent of Liberal Democrat Voice.

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