Loans For Lordships - a question

When the Community Charge (popularly known as the Poll Tax) was before the Lords, Gerald Kaufman stated on BBC Radio 4 that the Lords would be dealt with if they didn't vote against it.

Despite this threat the Lords passed the bill. The reason for this was that the Community Charge was considered a money bill - voting it down would have re-started the 1911 war between the Commons and the Lords. Many peers voted it through or abstained despite their dislike of the measure itself.

Lords reform duly became (again) a part of the manifesto. Within 2 years of the election of the current government, the first stage of the process was complete - only 92 hereditary peers remained. Then things stopped. Despite a parlimentry party eager for further change nothing happened

We now know that a process of raising money from potential peers began. The question is this - was policy changed to keep the cash flowing?

Since the scandal has broken, the money has dried up. Lords reform is back on again. It should be noted that the prefered method of election is list based proportional representation. One wonders if a donation would influence ones place upon the list.