<Li> Jump up ^ Excludes 22 peers on leave of absence or otherwise disqualified from sitting . </Li> <P> The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster . Officially, the full name of the house is the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled . </P> <P> Unlike the elected House of Commons, all members of the House of Lords (excluding 90 hereditary peers elected among themselves and two peers who are ex officio members) are appointed . The membership of the House of Lords is drawn from the peerage and is made up of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal . The Lords Spiritual are 26 bishops in the established Church of England . Of the Lords Temporal, the majority are life peers who are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister, or on the advice of the House of Lords Appointments Commission . However, they also include some hereditary peers including four dukes . </P> <P> Membership was once an entitlement of all hereditary peers, other than those in the peerage of Ireland, but under the House of Lords Act 1999, the right to membership was restricted to 92 hereditary peers . Since 2008, only one of them is female (the Countess of Mar); most hereditary peerages can be inherited only by men . </P>

Who appoints life peers in the house of lords