A selection of Lord Gordon of Strathblane's votes

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• Consistently voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, in 2011
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• 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
• Has never voted on university tuition fees

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Recent appearances

• Regulating in a Digital World (Communications Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note 12 Jun 2019

  My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Gilbert, and to have the first opportunity of thanking him for his chairmanship of our committee—a task he carried out with great skill, bearing in mind that the landscape we were surveying was changing as the report was being written. I also echo his thanks to the clerk of the committee, Theo Pembroke, and his team, and to our...

• 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 2 debates 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") 114 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)