Parliament Act of 1911

Parliament Act of 1911, act passed Aug. 10, 1911, in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. The act was proposed by a Liberal majority in the House of Commons. Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, in his 1909 “People’s Budget,” had included a tax on the “unearned increment” of land enhanced in value by industrial or other developments nearby. (The budget also included...