§ The Lord Chancellor (Lord Irvine of Lairg)My Lords, I have to inform the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments has received a letter from the Clerk of the Central Criminal Court informing him that the Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare was, on 19th July 2001, convicted of two counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice and two counts of perjury and was sentenced to a term of four years imprisonment.