§ Viscount Ridleyasked the Leader of the House:
Whether, in the interests of the classless society, he will ask the Procedure Committee to consider whether any Lord, regardless of degree in the Peerage, might if invited support a Life Peer at the ceremony of Introduction.
§ The Lord Privy Seal (Lord Wakeham)Yes. I have invited the Chairman of the Committees to place this matter on the agenda of the Procedure Committee's next meeting.