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Harriet Baldwin’s Private Members’ Bill is rescheduled for 21st June 2024

Harriet Baldwin’s PMB was scheduled to receive its second reading on 23 February; it was timed out and is rescheduled for 21 June. Here is the televised debate:  ps://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/53f4def8-62a7-476e-b721-1ea61739e01a  And here is the Hansard transcript: Contact: Charlotte Carew Pole  T:07977 481460 E:[email protected] @DaughtersRights Background: Male Hereditary Peers: 91  Female Hereditary Peer: 1  Male Peers on the

DaughtersRights , February 25, 2024

Lord Northbrook’s Private Members’ Bill

24th February 2024 — Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill – received its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday 9 February. It now proceeds to the Committee Stage, where it will be scrutinised line by line. The Hansard transcript from 9 February is Succession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill [HL] – Hansard –

DaughtersRights , February 24, 2024

Harriet Baldwin’s Private Members’ Bill –

Hereditary Titles (Female Succession) Bill – is scheduled to receive its second reading in the Commons on Friday 23 February. Contact: Charlotte Carew Pole  T:07977 481460 E:[email protected] @DaughtersRights Background: Male Hereditary Peers: 91  Female Hereditary Peer: 1  Male Peers on the register for election: 209  Female Peers on the register for election: 1 Daughters’ Rights began its

DaughtersRights , February 24, 2024

Letter to Penny Mordaunt

In December 2018, Penny Mordaunt, then Minister for Women & Equalities, was quoted in The Telegraph as writing to Theresa May requesting that the system governing the awarding of titles be ‘remedied’ to ensure that the spouses of all recipients be treated equally. In light of her support for equality for spouses, we have asked

DaughtersRights , February 24, 2024

Bill to allow first-born daughters to inherit titles passes first stage

8 March 2019 — The Daughters’ Rights campaign to allow first-born daughters the same rights to inherit titles as sons took an important step towards becoming law this week when the Hereditary Titles (Female Succession) Bill passed its first reading with cross-party support in the House of Commons. The passing of the first stage of

DaughtersRights , March 8, 2019

The Sun – 15/07/18

And we’re in The Sun as well – have a look at the article here with a piece about Meghan Markle’s potential daughter not inheriting the title.

DaughtersRights , July 16, 2018

We’re Changing our Name

For years we have been known as the Hares: Equality for Women in the Peerage – but we all feel that as our campaign gathers momentum we need to focus less on the hereditary aspect of our group and more on the political nature of what we are trying to achieve. In this day and

DaughtersRights , March 9, 2018

The Succession to Peerages Bill

The Succession to Peerages new private members Bill was introduced by Lord Trefgarne on June 11. It aims to clear up the issues around female inheritance of peerages but seems to still favour boys over girls within a family, and suggests bringing back peerages which are extinct or in abeyance. You can follow the progress of

DaughtersRights , June 19, 2014