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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 28 June 2005

Previously MP for Epsom and Ewell until 14 May 2001 — General election

Positions held at time of appointment: Member of Parliament for Epsom and Ewell, 1978-2001. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement, 1986-1987; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1987-1988; Minister of State for the Armed Forces, 1988-1993. (from Number 10 press release)

Entered the House of Commons on 27 April 1978 — unknown

Also represented Epsom and Ewell

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, AI in Weapon Systems Committee (31 Jan 2023 to 23 Nov 2023)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) ( 6 Nov 2017 to 1 Jul 2019)
• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) ( 3 Dec 2015 to 27 Apr 2017)
• Member, EU Sub Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs (17 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs, and International Trade (22 Jun 2010 to 16 May 2012)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee C - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy (21 Nov 2006 to 8 Apr 2010)
• Chair, Conservative Party 1922 Committee ( 1 May 1997 to 7 Jun 2001)
• Member, Standards and Privileges Committee (24 Oct 1996 to 4 Mar 1997)
• Member, Members' Interests Committee (17 Jul 1995 to 8 Nov 1995)
• Member, Standards in Public Life Committee (16 Nov 1994 to 8 Nov 1995)
• The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (25 Jul 1988 to 26 May 1993)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Procurement) (10 Sep 1986 to 12 Jun 1987)
• The Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury ( 3 Oct 1984 to 10 Sep 1986)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (11 May 1982 to 3 Oct 1984)

Recent appearances

• Environmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill [HL] - Committee: Amendment 1 13 Jun 2025

  My Lords, I started this debate by saying that my real concern about all these green initiatives is that they are adding to costs and are one of the reasons why our electricity prices are some of the highest in the G7 and make this country very uncompetitive, particularly when it comes to manufacturing industry, which continues to leach from this country to other countries in the world. The...

• Environmental Targets (Public Authorities) Bill [HL] - Committee: Amendment 1 13 Jun 2025

  My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for pointing out that I am actually here. I intervened on my noble friend Lady Stowell to make the point that we all support the introduction of AI, but AI is going to be tremendously consumptive of electricity. Electricity prices are actually very high in this country, and I attribute that to the targets we have set for...

• AI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note 13 Jun 2025

  Before my noble friend sits down, the problem with AI is that it uses astronomical amounts of electricity, and we have some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world. Does she think electricity prices are going to inhibit the growth of AI in this country?

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