Three Lords a seating
Long-serving Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack has been introduced as a new member of the House of Lords.
Life president and chairman of the House Magazine editorial advisory board, Lord Cormack, 71, had represented South Staffordshire since 1983.
An MP for 40 years until he stood down at May's general election, he was the second longest-serving Tory MP after Sir Peter Tapsell.
Lord Cormack became MP for Cannock in the general election of 1970.
Following boundary redistribution he was elected Member for South West Staffordshire - later renamed South Staffordshire - in 1974.
He is a Freeman of the City of London and was knighted in 1995 for services to Parliament.
As he was introduced in the upper chamber, Lord Cormack was flanked by fellow Tories, former chancellor Lord Lamont of Lewick and Lord Crathorne.
John Sharkey, chair of the Liberal Democrat 2010 general election campaign and Sir Bernard Ribeiro, retired consultant general surgeon, also took their seats on the red benches.
The three peers are part of a batch of 54 new members of the Lords announced by the prime minister last month.
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