A selection of the Bishop of Norwich's votes

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• Has never voted on more EU integration
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Has never voted on university tuition fees

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Recent appearances

• House of Lords Reform Bill [HL] - Second Reading 3 Feb 2017

  My Lords, I wondered whether to speak in this debate, but since the Bill makes specific reference to the Lords Spiritual, it seemed important to give a view from these Benches. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for recognising the continuing place for Bishops, even if an altered capacity—I will comment on Clause 12 in a little more detail later on. We on these Benches are...

• Technical and Further Education Bill - Second Reading 1 Feb 2017

  My Lords, I am glad to add my voice to the chorus of welcome for the Bill—on these Benches we are professionally interested in choruses. Those who read the City & Guilds report Sense & Instability, which was published just over a couple of years ago, will remember the bleak picture painted there of three decades of skills and employment policy. The authors pointed out—with...

• Homelessness - Question 31 Jan 2017

  There is a growing number of reports of landlords evicting tenants on universal credit, not because the tenants are in arrears but because landlords dislike the new system where their rental income comes through the tenant rather than being paid direct. Will the Minister assure the House that this change of practice will be reviewed if these indications show that it increases homelessness...

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Bishop

Entered the House of Lords on 17 March 2004

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Communications Committee (7 Jul 2011 to 30 Mar 2015)

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• Has spoken in 7 debates in the last year — average amongst Lords. See all the Bishop of Norwich’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 3.44% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 1 annotation on this Lord’s speeches — average amongst Lords.
• 16 people are tracking this peer — email me updates on the Bishop of Norwich’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 45 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)