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The Scottish Parliament is now dissolved ahead of the election on Thursday 7 May 2026.

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Chamber and committees

Abolition of the Unelected House of Lords

  • Submitted by: Bob Doris, Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 November 2025
  • Motion type: Standard Motion
  • Motion reference: S6M-19690
  • Current status: Fallen

That the Parliament believes that the UK’s unelected House of Lords is an affront to democracy; considers that, for as long as Scotland remains part of the UK, any revising chamber at the UK Parliament should be fully elected; deplores what it sees as a situation in which UK political parties, including both the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Labour Party, often make political appointments to the House of Lords as a reward to friends and allies; believes that the Labour Party has pledged to abolish the House of Lords for the last 115 years and has singularly failed to do so, even following landslide UK election victories; recognises reports that the UK Government appears to be delaying the implementation of a range of modest reforms to the House of Lords, and calls for the unelected UK House of Lords to be fully abolished.


Supported by: Karen Adam, Clare Adamson, Colin Beattie, James Dornan, Jackie Dunbar, Joe FitzPatrick, Kenneth Gibson, Jamie Hepburn, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Rona Mackay, Paul McLennan, Stuart McMillan, Audrey Nicoll, Alex Rowley, Kevin Stewart, David Torrance, Evelyn Tweed