The SNP will table an amendment to press the Government to go beyond its proposal to streamline the House of Lords and abolish it altogether.
The second reading of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, which will end the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the Lords, is set to take place on Tuesday.
Abolishing the 92 seats reserved for hereditary peers was one of Labour’s manifesto commitments, and is expected to be followed by the imposition of a retirement age of 80 on members of the Lords.
The SNP will put forward a series of amendments, starting with a reasoned amendment on Tuesday that the party hopes will force a vote.
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It is up to the speaker whether the amendment is selected and this is usually announced at the start of the debate.
SNP Westminster Deputy Leader Pete Wishart MP said: “The Labour Party has repeatedly broken its promise to abolish the House of Lords for more than a century – and, frankly, this embarrassingly limited bill is 114 years too little, too late.
“Voters were promised change but instead Sir Keir Starmer has ripped up his election pledges, and continued stuffing the Lords with Labour Party donors and cronies as it suits him.
“The SNP will table a series of amendments to force the Labour Government to go much further – including pressing a vote on abolishing the House of Lords altogether."
The cost of the House of Lords was £212 million last year, according to research from the House of Commons Library commissioned by the SNP.
The last Labour government removed most hereditary peers from the Lords in 1999, but allowed 92 to remain in what was initially intended to be a short-term compromise to get the legislation through.
There are around 800 sitting peers in the House of Lords.
About half of those still in the chamber are Conservatives, with the rest mainly independent Crossbenchers and a small number of Labour and Liberal Democrat peers.
While the SNP is pushing for further dismantling of Parliament’s upper house, Conservative critics have called plans to phase out hereditary peers a “vendetta” and “political vandalism”.
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