Editing Lords Temporal (section)

=== Life peers ===

The largest group of Lords Temporal, and indeed of the whole House, are life peers. As of March 2024 there are 670 life peers.<ref name="parliament.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/parties/lords/by-peerage |title=Lords membership - MPS and Lords - UK Parliament}}</ref> Life peerages rank only as barons or baronesses, and are created under the [[Life Peerages Act 1958]]. Like all other peers, life peers are created by the Crown, who acts on the advice of the Prime Minister or the House of Lords Appointments Commission. However, by convention, the Prime Minister allows leaders of other parties to nominate some life peers, to maintain political equilibrium.

In 2000, the government announced it would set up an Independent Appointments Commission, under [[Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham|Lord Stevenson of Coddenham]], to select fifteen so-called "[[people's peer]]s" for life peerages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lordsappointments.gov.uk/appointees.aspx|title=HOLAC Appointments|publisher=House of Lords Appointments Commission|date=30 July 2009|access-date=7 September 2009|archive-date=3 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903113813/http://www.lordsappointments.gov.uk/appointees.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brickcourt.co.uk/document-uploads/HOLAC_080618.doc |title=Archived copy |website=www.brickcourt.co.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528174354/http://www.brickcourt.co.uk/document-uploads/HOLAC_080618.doc |archive-date=28 May 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>