Deputy Prime Minister's Questions has concluded
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Tim Farron asks if Clegg will look into lowering the voting age to 16 to allow younger people get get involved.
Clegg acknowledges the demographic of Parliament and that a large number of people come from London and the South East.
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Paul Flynn asks if one day the British public will be able to elect their head of state.
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Paul Flynn asks if one day the British public could elect their head of state.
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Peter Bone has asked if he senses a silent protest from the front bench as many of the Conservative front bench ministers are not there to support him.
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Things are coming full circle for Clegg as he receives a question on why people should trust him on Lords reform after his u-turn on tuition fees.
Clegg repeats the same argument tat the Liberal Democrats did not win the general election.
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John Cryer repeats earlier questions on putting the question of Lords reform to a referendum.
Clegg repeats his earlier answer that it would be expensive and that the issue of Lords and that Lords reform is an issue that all parties agree on.
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Clegg says he does't have the facts at his fingertips and that he isn't a "human encyclopedia".
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Topical questions now.
Harriet Harman asks by how much has participation in school sports has fallen since the abolishing of the schools sports survey.
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Julian Lewis argues that the reason why Lords reform is not being put into a referendum because of what happened with the referendum on AV
Clegg argues that the reason for not holding a referendum was because it would've been expensive.
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Clegg coming under fire over Lords reform as MPs question and why he doesn’t trust the British public to vote on the matter.
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Debate is getting heated as we move on to Lords reform.
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Clegg: We are not persuaded to hold a referendum on Lords reform
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Harper saus the House will conclude day two of the debate. “I look forward to the House’s decision to support our bill particularly from the opposite side.”
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Mark Harper the Minister for Political and Constitutional reform says that the UK Bill of Rights Commission will report on their recommendations later this year.
He stresses that he will not pre-empt that report.
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The house poses questions to the DPM on voter registration
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The Deputy Prime Minister pays tribute to PC Ian Dibell who was shot yesterday.
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