what does parliament consist of?

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  • The House of Commons has 650 MPs elected to represent their constituents.
  • The government is the party who have the majority of MPs in the House of Commons.
  • New law proposals usually come from the government.
  • The House of Lords has 800 lords, with 92 being hereditary peers passed from parent to child.
  • In the past, all lords were sons of nobles such as dukes and barons.
  • Another 26 lords in the House of Lords are Church of England bishops.
  • The rest of the lords in the House of Lords are 'lifetime peers', such as Baroness Doreen Lawrence.
  • The monarch approves any Bill at the end of the process.