Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 July 2016.
Caroline Spelman
The Second Church Estates Commissioner, The Second Church Estates Commissioner
12:00,
7 July 2016
As Mr Sheerman has assiduously asked me this question on several occasions, I am delighted to be able to inform him that a further six women have been appointed as bishops: the diocesan Bishop of Newcastle, with a seat in Another place, and five suffragan bishops—of Taunton, Aston, Sherborne, Repton and Dorking.
During a debate members of the House of Commons traditionally refer to the House of Lords as 'another place' or 'the other place'.
Peers return the gesture when they speak of the Commons in the same way.
This arcane form of address is something the Labour Government has been reviewing as part of its programme to modernise the Houses of Parliament.
