Profile

Former Liberal Democrat Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1997

Left the House of Lords on 15 May 2015 — retired

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill [HL] Committee ( 5 Sep 2011 to 1 Dec 2011)
• Member, Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills (Joint Committee) (17 Mar 2011 to 14 Jun 2011)
• Member, Draft Bribery Bill (Joint Committee) (11 May 2009 to 16 Jul 2009)
• Member, Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (23 Nov 2006 to 8 Apr 2010)
• Spokesperson in the Lords (Shadow Lord Chancellor), Constitutional Affairs (21 Mar 2006 to 10 Jan 2007)
• Advisory Team On Legal Matters, Cross-Portfolio and Non-Portfolio Responsibilities (21 Mar 2006 to 10 Jan 2007)
• Advisory Team On Legal Matters, Non-Departmental & Cross Departmental Responsibilities ( 1 Jun 2005 to 21 Mar 2006)
• Member, European Union Committee (24 May 2005 to 8 Nov 2006)
• Shadow Lord Chancellor, Law Officers (Constitutional Affairs) (22 Feb 2005 to 21 Mar 2006)
• Advisory Team On Legal Matters, Non-Departmental & Cross-Departmental Responsibilities (22 Feb 2005 to 1 Jun 2005)
• Member, Constitutional Reform Bill Committee (22 Mar 2004 to 24 Jun 2004)
• Shadow Minister, Law Officers (Constitutional Affairs) (26 Jan 2004 to 22 Feb 2005)
• Member, Economic Affairs Committee ( 2 Dec 2003 to 7 May 2005)
• Member, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) ( 9 Dec 2002 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee) (19 Jun 2002 to 5 May 2005)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (26 Jun 2001 to 18 Nov 2004)
• Member, Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee ( 3 Dec 1998 to 7 Nov 2002)
• Member, European Union Committee ( 3 Dec 1998 to 11 May 2001)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee E (12 Jan 1998 to 11 May 2001)

Recent appearances

• European Council and Nuclear Security Summit — Statement 26 Mar 2014

  My Lords, as I said to Members of your Lordships’ House some days ago, Russia should be allowed to support Crimea. Crimea is a body that has been separate from Ukraine for more than 200 years, and Ukraine has dealt with it in a careless and unsatisfactory way as a part of that country. Ukraine took over patronage of Crimea from Russia only in the 1950s. In all reality, Crimea has been...

• Ukraine — Motion to Take Note 18 Mar 2014

  My Lords, I want to speak briefly on this occasion and to concentrate on Crimea. We need to study the past of Crimea as well as its recent features. Crimea has been an important Russian district ever since the great Queen Catherine secured it in the latter half of the 18th century. In the 1860s, as we all know, a Russian army was fighting attacks by the British and French armies in Crimea....

• Voting Age (Comprehensive Reduction) Bill [HL]: Second Reading 25 Oct 2013

  I believe that young people should be allowed to vote at the ages of 16 and 17, a view which I came to some years ago. Elections were on the way and as a candidate I went to school meetings about those elections. Most of those schools were state schools. I went to the constituencies where I had a political interest—first, North Kensington and, later, Oxford West and Abingdon. With the...

More of Lord Goodhart’s recent appearances