House of Lords
Upper house of the UK Parliament
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| June 1 2025 | David Walker, Bishop of Manchester, appointed as the convenor of the Lords Spiritual bench in the House of Lords. |
| May 31 2025 | Jonathan Frost, Bishop of Portsmouth, announced as an incoming Lord Spiritual to the House of Lords |
| 2025 | Lord Rook, an Anglican priest, was appointed to the House of Lords. |
| April 11 2025 | Simon Hart announced as an incoming Conservative life peer to the House of Lords |
| 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. |
| 2023 | Helen-Ann Hartley enters the Lords as a female diocesan bishop under the Act. |
| 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 23 2022 | Alan Smith, Bishop of St Albans, was appointed as the convenor of the Lords Spiritual bench, coordinating the work of bishops in 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. |
| 2021 | Guli Francis-Dehqani enters the Lords as a female diocesan bishop under the Act. |
| 2021 | Archbishop Sentamu of York was created a life peer. |
| 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. |
| April 2021 | Lord Fowler resigned as Lord Speaker, and was succeeded by John McFall, Lord McFall of Alcluith, who became the incumbent Lord Speaker. |
| January 31 2021 | Lord Hague of Richmond goes on leave of absence from the House of Lords. |
| 2020 | Female representation in the House of Lords increased by only 1%, highlighting a slowdown in gender diversity progress. |
| 2020 | Special arrangements were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow some parliamentary duties to be conducted online. |
| 2020 | The Johnson government proposed relocating the House of Lords from London to either York or Birmingham in Northern England, aiming to 'reconnect' with the region. The proposal was met with significant skepticism from peers. |
| 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. |
| November 2020 | Nazir Ahmed, Lord Ahmed, retires from the House of Lords following a Lords Conduct Committee report recommending his expulsion. |
| 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. |
| May 1 2020 | Margaret of Mar resigned her position as one of the 90 hereditary peers in 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. |
| 2019 | Libby Lane enters the Lords as a female diocesan bishop under the Act. |
| 2019 | Naomi Ellenbogen conducted a seven-month enquiry revealing that one in five House of Lords staff had experienced bullying or harassment, with many not reporting due to fear of reprisals. |
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