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Asked if there were any other Government appointments to be made, the PMS said that people should expect a few more appointments to be made in the coming days.

Asked whether the Government would be appointing 100 more peers in the House of Lords, the PMS said that he didn’t think the Government would but he had seen the story being referred to. The policy set out in the Coalition Agreement said that there would be proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber of the House based on Proportional Representation.

The proposals would be developed in the next six months or so and in the interim, Lords appointments would be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by political parties in the General Election. The PMS said he thought it was a leap to go from that to the suggestion of 100 more peers.

Put that it was mathematically right to have 100 more peers, the PMS replied that the Coalition Agreement stated that between now and December 2010, Lords appointments would be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote. This was an interim arrangement but people should not expect 100 peers to be appointed in the next six months.

Asked if Regional Ministers had been scrapped, the PMS said that we were still in the process of completing the appointments to the Government. The Prime Minister had been very clear on the importance of devolution.

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