§ Lord Trefgarneasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will place in the Library of the House a list of the 160 peers, referred to by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 6 December, who were on the voters register in the Kensington and Chelsea parliamentary constituency at the time of the recent by-election. [HL265]
§ Lord Bassam of BrightonElectoral registers are compiled by local electoral registration officers. They do not supply copies of their registers to the Home Office and the Government do not have a copy of the electoral register for the Kensington and Chelsea constituency, nor a list of the 166 peers who appear on it. It is, however, available for consultation in the town hall and libraries in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Peers are identified on the electoral register by the letter "L", though no distinction is made between life peers and hereditary peers or between hereditary peers who remain Members of your Lordships' House and those who do not.