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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1996

• Wikipedia page

Currently held offices

• Member, Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee (since 24 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Environment and Climate Change Committee (14 Apr 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
• 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 for Environment, Transport and the Regions) (31 Jul 1998 to 11 Jun 2001)
• 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)

Recent appearances

• Covid-19 Inquiry - Motion to Take Note 3 Sep 2024

  My Lords, as the last speaker from the Back Benches, I do not intend to comment on everybody’s speeches, but I do hope that the noble Lord, Lord Hannan, makes his own submission to the inquiry, because it is a vital point. I would like to see how the inquiry and its advisers deal with his point. I say no more. It is probably just as well that I do not comment widely because my own expertise...

• Covid-19 Inquiry - Motion to Take Note 3 Sep 2024

  I thank my noble friend for that. That shows that we are going backwards with public facilities, but private and other facilities also need to be mobilised immediately and a judgment made on how long we need to do that, according to the success or otherwise of our control of a pandemic. I put it to the Minister in the new Government that if that has not yet been put in place on a wide scale,...

• Covid-19 Inquiry - Motion to Take Note 3 Sep 2024

  My Lords, as the last speaker from the Back Benches, I do not intend to comment on everybody’s speeches, but I do hope that the noble Lord, Lord Hannan, makes his own submission to the inquiry, because it is a vital point. I would like to see how the inquiry and its advisers deal with his point. I say no more. It is probably just as well that I do not comment widely because my own expertise...

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