08/10/2012
Peers have returned from their long summer break, and Susan Hulme presents the best of their debates on their first day back at Westminster.
Should the drink-drive laws in England and Wales be changed to try to reduce the number of serious accidents on our roads?. That was one of the questions for peers on their first day back at Westminster after their 10-week summer break. Susan Hulme presents the main highlights of the day. Peers also weighed up the implications of the Government's announcement in August to abandon all plans for changing the Lords into an elected House from its present appointed House.
Also on the programme:
* Alicia McCarthy covers a Lords debate on zoos.
* And . What exactly is the role of Private Parliamentary Secretaries, better known as PPSs?
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