A selection of Baroness Young of Old Scone's votes

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• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
• Has never voted on more EU integration
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• Has never voted on university tuition fees

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Recent appearances

• Environment and Wildlife (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Motion to Approve 12 Feb 2019

  My Lords, these regulations will allow UK authorities to exercise legislative functions in the UK after exit day in a range of areas, including, as has already been outlined, persistent organic pollutants, importation of timber products and derogations from certain CITES provisions. The Explanatory Memorandum says that this statutory instrument does not make any substantive policy changes,...

• Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Motion to Approve 12 Feb 2019

  I thank the Minister for giving way. I just express a slight nervousness about the provision, which I absolutely recognise is necessary, for the new body to be able to take action on complaints that arise from the day of exit, whenever that is. If we were to leave without a deal and the new body did not come into being for 18 months or two years, which is quite possible under the current...

• Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Motion to Approve 12 Feb 2019

  My Lords, I thank the Minister for his exposition of the statutory instrument. I know that it has made his brain hurt, so he is in common with all of us. I will focus on some specific issues and particularly tax him on one of its more arcane elements. This SI is one of those known as a jumbo regulation, because it sweeps up so many provisions in a high-level way, but it has one oddity....

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 4 November 1997

Party was Labour until 30 Nov 2000; Non-affiliated until 25 Feb 2015

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Currently held offices

• Member, Rural Economy Committee (since 17 May 2018)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (since 25 May 2016)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, National Policy for the Built Environment Committee (8 Jul 2015 to 11 Feb 2016)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee D (12 Jan 1998 to 30 Nov 2000)

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• Has spoken in 87 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Lords. See all Baroness Young of Old Scone’s speeches
• Has received answers to 18 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 47.89% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 205 times in debates — above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)