House of Lords
Upper house of the UK Parliament
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| April 11 2025 | Michael Gove announced as an incoming Conservative life peer |
| March 1 2025 | Baroness Murphy, a Crossbench life peer and former professor of psychiatry, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| February 28 2025 | Sophie Jelley announced as the incoming Lord Spiritual, Bishop of Coventry to the House of Lords |
| January 31 2025 | Lord Mandelson, a Labour life peer and UK Ambassador to the United States, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| January 16 2025 | The bill to extend the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act received Royal Assent, prolonging the Act's provisions until 18 May 2030. |
| January 8 2025 | Lord Stone of Blackheath was suspended from the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer for a period of 6 months. |
| 2024 | The Labour Starmer ministry government introduced a bill to Parliament to extend the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act's provisions by five more years. |
| July 30 2024 | Baroness Smith of Basildon introduces a bill to extend the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act by 5 years, until 18 May 2030. |
| July 30 2024 | Duke of Montrose, a Conservative hereditary peer and former shadow minister for the Scotland Office, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| July 30 2024 | Lord Malloch-Brown, a Crossbench life peer and former UN administrator, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| July 18 2024 | Lord Geidt, a Crossbench life peer and former Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| July 17 2024 | Lord Boyd of Duncansby, a non-affiliated life peer and former judge, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| July 8 2024 | Lord True assumes the role of Shadow Leader of the House of Lords, taking over the position of leading the Official Opposition in the House of Lords. |
| November 17 2023 | David Cameron returned to government as Foreign Secretary, appointed to the House of Lords on this date. |
| November 6 2023 | Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill becomes disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords upon becoming Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, in accordance with section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. |
| April 17 2023 | Baroness Worthington goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| February 1 2023 | Lord Barwell takes leave of absence from the House of Lords, being a Conservative life peer and former Downing Street Chief of Staff. |
| December 31 2022 | Baroness Fullbrook goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| December 6 2022 | Baroness Mone goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| September 8 2022 | Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the office of Lord Great Chamberlain changed hands, which would impact David Cholmondeley's status in the House of Lords under the 1999 Act. |
| June 9 2022 | Lord Davies of Abersoch goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| May 24 2022 | Baroness Clark of Kilwinning, a Labour life peer and former MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, takes leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| May 16 2022 | Baroness Vadera goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| May 11 2022 | Lord Collins of Mapesbury goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| December 16 2021 | Lord Freud goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| August 18 2021 | Lord Palumbo of Southwark goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| May 12 2021 | Baroness Morgan of Ely goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| January 31 2021 | Lord Hague of Richmond goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| December 7 2020 | Lord Maginnis of Drumglass was suspended from the House of Lords as an Independent Ulster Unionist peer with a minimum suspension period of 18 months. |
| September 30 2020 | Baroness Shafik was introduced as a Crossbench peer, becoming President of Columbia University and former president of the London School of Economics. |
| June 22 2020 | Lord Feldman of Elstree goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| January 11 2020 | Lord Reed of Allermuir becomes disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords upon becoming President of the Supreme Court, in accordance with section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. |
| February 27 2019 | Lord Barker of Battle takes leave of absence from the House of Lords, being a Conservative life peer and former MP for Bexhill and Battle. |
| November 1 2016 | Lord Llewellyn of Steep goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| March 7 2016 | Rachel Treweek delivers her maiden speech in the House of Lords. |
| 2015 | The Lords Spiritual (Women) Act was passed, mandating that vacancies among Lords Spiritual must be filled by a woman when eligible. Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester, became the first woman to sit as a Lord Spiritual in the House of Lords due to this Act. |
| October 26 2015 | Rachel Treweek is officially introduced to the House of Lords by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. |
| September 19 2015 | Rachel Treweek is enthroned as the Bishop of Gloucester. |
| May 27 2015 | The Baroness Smith of Basildon succeeds The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon as Shadow Leader of the House of Lords. |
| 2014 | A change in law allowed women to be ordained as bishops. |
| May 11 2010 | The Baroness Royall of Blaisdon takes office as Shadow Leader of the House of Lords. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Women in the House of Lords, List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999, List of current members of the House of Lords, Shadow Leader of the House of Lords & Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.