On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it...that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rear-guard action, the last time the bill went through.

BBC: Week ahead

On more occasions than even he cares to remember, Lord Steel has proposed a bill which would allow peers to retire, to be expelled from the House if convicted of serious criminal offences, and to exclude the 92 hereditary peers who continue to sit in it... that last provision was pulled in the face of a determined rearguard action, the last time the bill went through.

BBC: Week ahead

The former Liberal leader's bill contains the provisions for peers to effectively retire and to ban those jailed for more than a year.

BBC: House of Lords Reform Bill