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House of Lords Appointments Commission

Asked about the decision by the House of Lords appointments commission to block the list of new peers, the PMOS said that, as was only right and proper, there was a process involved in the appointments commission and we didn’t provide a running commentary on that process. What we would do is announce the outcome of those discussions in the normal way.

Asked why it was taking so long, the PMOS said that these things took time, but as he had said he did not wish to get drawn into a commentary of the process. He recognised that these were perfectly legitimate questions, but it was also perfectly legitimate for him to say that he couldn’t give an answer until the process had reached a conclusion. Asked if there might be a way of announcing those Lords who had already passed through the process successfully, the PMOS said that we would announce it as one list.

Put to him that while this process was going on it was casting a shadow over the reputation of people like Dr Chai Patel who had been nominated, the PMOS said that illustrated precisely why it wasn’t wise to get drawn into any conversation about this process.

Put to him that in the past people had had to withdraw names such as in the case of Michael Ashcroft, the PMOS thanked the journalist for that historical comparison, however he was still not going to give a running commentary on the issue.

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