A selection of Lord Mitchell’s votes
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Consistently voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes
0 votes for, 2 votes against, 1 absence, in 2011.
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Almost always voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes
0 votes for, 5 votes against, 2 absences, in 2011.
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Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Details
0 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, in 2010.
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Has never voted on university tuition fees Details
0 votes for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, in 2010.
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Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes
6 votes for, 0 votes against, 9 absences, between 2008–2011.
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Recent appearances
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My Lords, 6 October saw Israel approaching the zenith of its dreams. Following the initial success of the Abraham accords, full diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia were tantalisingly close. After 76 years of rejection by the Arab world, Israel was poised to achieve what she wanted most of all—international acceptance. Cruelly, 7 October changed all that. At the beginning of January, I...
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My Lords, five weeks ago I was at Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the Israel-Gaza border. Hamas had ransacked the place. It did not take much to imagine the carnage and depravity that took place. I then turned to my left and faced Gaza, no more than a mile away. There were explosions. It also did not take much to imagine the thousands of innocent Palestinians who were dying and whose lives were being...
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My Lords, if it were not for tips, I probably would not be standing here today. In the mid-1960s, I was living in New York, studying for my master’s degree in business administration at Columbia University. Sadly for me, I had no money, and New York city is no place to be poor, so I got a job as a waiter at a restaurant enticingly called Your Father’s Mustache. It was located in Greenwich...
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Profile
Labour Peer
Entered the House of Lords on 24 May 2000
Positions held at time of appointment: Founder and Chairman, Syscap plc (from Number 10 press release)
Currently held offices
- Member, AI in Weapon Systems Committee (since 27 Apr 2023)
Other offices held in the past
- Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (28 Jan 2021 to 25 Apr 2023)
- Member, Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee (13 Jun 2019 to 16 Jun 2020)
- Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) ( 3 Dec 2015 to 27 Apr 2017)
- Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (12 Jun 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
- Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Innovation and Skills) ( 6 Sep 2012 to 10 Oct 2013)
- Member, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Committee (29 May 2012 to 10 Oct 2012)
- Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (26 Nov 2009 to 8 Apr 2010)
- Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 (21 Nov 2006 to 30 Oct 2007)
- Member, EU Sub-Committee B - Internal Market (21 Nov 2006 to 8 Apr 2010)
- Member, Information Committee (Lords) (25 Nov 2002 to 18 Nov 2004)
- Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (19 Nov 2002 to 8 Nov 2006)
- Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (13 Nov 2002 to 8 Nov 2006)
- Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 (26 Jun 2001 to 20 Nov 2003)
- Member, Library and Computers Sub Committee (26 Jun 2001 to 7 Nov 2002)
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