§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Prime Minister if he will make it his policy to require persons raised to the peerage on his recommendations to serve as Ministers in the House of Lords, to relinquish their peerage when they cease to be Ministers of the Crown; and if he will make a statement. [22284]
§ The Prime Minister:I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) on 26 November 2001, Official Report, column 626W.