Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 24 May 2011.
We want to reduce the number of people in the reformed House of Lords very dramatically—the draft Bill and White Paper that we published last week suggests 300 Members. Exactly what the cost will be depends, of course, on the proportions of elected and non-elected Members, so it is quite difficult to come up with precise estimates at this stage.