A selection of Lord Whitty’s votes

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• Consistently voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 7 votes against, in 2011.
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Details 0 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, in 2010.
• Consistently voted against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 0 votes for, 3 votes against, in 2011. Absences for this policy may be affected COVID-19 restrictions.
• Has never voted on university tuition fees Details 0 votes for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, in 2010.
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 8 votes for, 1 vote against, 6 absences, between 2008–2011.

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Recent appearances

• South West Rail Resilience Programme - Question 22 May 2023

  My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Berkeley, and with his permission, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper.

• South West Rail Resilience Programme - Question 22 May 2023

  My Lords, I am glad to see that Members are so keen to speak. I thank the Minister for her reply, but it does not really answer the Question—or it does so only partly—and it does not reflect the importance of this line to the already existing problems of transport links to west Devon and Cornwall. Can she reassure us that the vital fourth and fifth phases—she mentioned the fourth, but...

• Air Quality Strategy Consultation - Question 18 May 2023

  My Lords, does the Minister not recognise that not only is it disastrous that there was such a short time for consultation but the substance of the document on which he was consulting is woefully inadequate to attack the problem? I speak as a former president of an independent organisation, Environmental Protection UK, which made a submission to the consultation. Is it time for the...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1996

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Currently held offices

• Member, Environment and Climate Change Committee (since 14 Apr 2021)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (17 Sep 2020 to 4 Feb 2021)
• Member, Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee (13 Jun 2019 to 23 Jun 2020)
• Member, Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee (28 Jan 2016 to 29 Feb 2016)
• Chair, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (23 Jun 2015 to 2 Jul 2019)
• Chair, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (23 Jun 2015 to 2 Jul 2019)
• Member, European Union Committee (8 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2019)
• Member, EU Sub Committee D - Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy (17 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee G - Social Policies and Consumer Protection (22 Jun 2010 to 16 May 2012)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee B - Internal Market (8 Oct 2007 to 8 Apr 2010)
• Member, Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee) (23 Apr 2007 to 3 Aug 2007)
• Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (6 Jun 2005 to 8 Nov 2006)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Food, Farming and Sustainable Energy) (13 Jun 2003 to 10 May 2005)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (12 Jun 2001 to 13 Jun 2003)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (11 Jun 2001 to 11 May 2005)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (28 Jul 1998 to 11 Jun 2001)
• Government Whip (7 May 1997 to 28 Jul 1998)