But no bananas

For reasons unrelated to chickens, I have been looking through Hansard. I emerge entirely committed to a constitutional reform which would give greater powers to the House of Lords. In evidence, this opening statement in a debate:

Baroness Masham of Ilton: My Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper. In doing so, I declare that I have a small flock of domestic chickens.