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The Wakeham Report, published in 2000, was the report of a Royal Commission headed by Lord Wakeham, concerning reform of the United Kingdom's House of Lords. (See also Lords Reform.) __NOTOC__ ==Recommendations of the report== The Commission explicitly did not recommend a wholly or predominantly elected chamber, and also rejected the idea of random selection of members. Instead, the following recommendations were made:〔(Executive Summary of the Wakeham Report )〕 # The membership of the House of Lords should be reduced to around 550.〔 # A majority of these should be appointed by an independent Honours and Appointments Commission, rather than by the Prime Minister; this would reduce the role of the House as a source of political patronage.〔 # A minority of members (between 60 and 195) should be elected on a regional basis, through proportional representation. Three different models were proposed, with varying numbers of elected members; under all three models, members were to serve for "three electoral cycles" or 15 years.〔 # Ministers should be accountable to the House of Lords as well as the House of Commons. # The few remaining hereditary peers should be removed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wakeham Report」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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