This is a list of current members of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit in the House of Lords: the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, and the next 21 most senior diocesan bishops (with the exception of the Bishop in Europe and the Bishop of Sodor and Man). Under the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015, until May 2030, female bishops take precedence over men to become new Lords Spiritual for the 21 seats allocated by seniority.
Lords Temporal include life peers, excepted hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999 (some of whom have been elected to the House after being removed from it in 1999), and remaining law life peers.
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There are also peers who remain members of the House, but are currently ineligible to sit and vote.
Under section 23 of the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, peers may obtain a leave of absence for the remainder of a Parliament. The following peers are currently on a leave of absence.
Under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, holders of certain judicial offices who are peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while in office. The following peers are currently subject to this provision.
The following peers are currently suspended from the House in accordance with section 1 of the House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Act 2015.
The following vacated seats have been reserved for excepted hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999 (as presently in force). These vacant seats will cease to exist when section 1 of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 comes into force upon the end of the current session of Parliament, expected in May 2026.
Under the permanent Standing Orders of the House of Lords, such vacancies would have normally triggered a by-election within three months. In anticipation of the introduction of the bill that would become the Act, by-elections were paused by special motions of the House in July 2024 and October 2025.
The following people have been announced to become peers but have not yet received their writ of summons or letters patent and have not been introduced.