House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill: motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 3

MPs voted on 4 September 2025 to reject Lords Amendment 3 to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, passing the motion to disagree by 338 ayes to 74 noes. The amendment, tabled in the Lords by the Conservative peer Lord True, would have clarified the monarch's power to grant a life peerage as an honour without conferring any right to sit or vote in the House of Lords. By rejecting it, MPs kept the Bill in its original form. The vote means the Bill proceeds without creating a new statutory category of non-sitting life peer, a title that would carry the honour of a peerage without any parliamentary responsibilities attached. The government argued that the existing honours system already provides ample means to recognise public service, and that any peer appointed through the life peerage process carries with it both the title and the expectation of contributing to the second Chamber's work. Creating a separate tier of purely honorary life peerages was, in the government's view, outside the Bill's narrow purpose of removing the remaining hereditary peers from the Lords. Labour MPs voted unanimously for the government's position, joined by the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party, with no recorded dissent on the government side. Seventy-one of the 74 noes came from Conservative MPs, with two from Reform UK and one from an independent. The vote was one of three motions to disagree with Lords amendments taken on the same day; motions against Lords Amendments 1 and 2 passed at 336 to 77 and 331 to 73 respectively, indicating a consistent government majority across all three contested amendments.