Lords:Manual

House of Lords Manual

This is the homepage of the Manual for the House of Lords. It primarily concerns itself with regulations around the peerage and also covers things like a Peer's Lands. This manual is updated typically by bills passed by the House of Lords. If you have questions around the contents of this manual you are advised to contact the Lord Speaker or Deputy Lord Speaker.

Table of Contents

House of Lords Manual Homepage

What is a Peer?

Forms of address

Privileges of the Peerage

Rules of Conduct and Peer like qualities

Granting of Peerage

Boards and Courts

The House of Lords

Progress of a Bill in the House of Lords

Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Lords

Peerage Inheritance and Heirs

Peerage Lands and staff

Lord Speaker and Deputies