Title page
Contents
Summary 4
1. Ministerial appointments: background 5
2. Ministers in the Lords: lists and statistics 6
2.1. Ministers in the House of Lords since 1979: statistics 6
2.2. Cabinet Ministers in the House of Lords since 1979 7
2.3. Should there be any Cabinet ministers in the House of Lords? 8
2.4. Historical information 9
3. 'Outsider' ministers 11
3.1. Gordon Brown's 'Government of all the talents' 11
3.2. 'Outsider' ministers in other administrations 13
4. Accountability of Cabinet Ministers in the Lords 16
4.1. House of Commons 16
4.2. House of Lords 18