A selection of Lord Gordon of Strathblane's votes

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• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• Has never voted on university tuition fees
• Consistently voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, in 2011
• Consistently voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 7 votes against, in 2011
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 10 votes for, 1 vote against, 4 absences, between 2008–2011

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Recent appearances

• UK Advertising in a Digital Age (Communications Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note 25 Apr 2019

  My Lords, I joined the committee just after it started this review and just before the noble Lord, Lord Gilbert, became chairman. First of all, I take this opportunity to thank him for his chairmanship of the committee—he did superbly—and for his success in finally securing a debate on a report produced a year ago. Harold Wilson once said a week is a long time in politics. A year is an...

• Data Protection Bill [HL] - Committee (6th Day) 22 Nov 2017

  Taking up the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, does the Minister agree that we are introducing, for the first time, vetting of material before it is broadcast, a power that even Ofcom, the regulator set up by government for broadcasting, does not have? Ofcom regulates only after the event. Surely this is a dramatic new intervention.

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1997

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Currently held offices

• Member, Communications Committee (since 18 Oct 2017)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Communications Committee (25 Nov 2009 to 15 May 2013)

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• Has spoken in 1 debate in the last year — below average amongst Lords. See all Lord Gordon of Strathblane’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 61.46% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — above average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 113 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)