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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, Science and Technology Committee (since 31 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Land Use in England Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 28 Nov 2022)
• Member, Environment and Climate Change Committee (14 Apr 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Member, Rural Economy Committee (17 May 2018 to 26 Mar 2019)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (25 May 2016 to 28 Jan 2021)
• 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)

Recent appearances

• Global Warming - Motion to Take Note 16 Jan 2025

  My Lords, I declare my interests with a range of environmental organisations, as listed in the register. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for securing this important debate. I am very glad that he has seen the light on the road to Damascus and is now seeing climate change and biodiversity as a joined-up issue. Predictably, the noble Lord has done a splendid job of laying out the...

• Great British Energy Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 88 13 Jan 2025

  My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 90A in my name. At the time that I tabled it, it was a simple little amendment at the fag end of a Bill. Instead, it is now an amendment that threatens to be hated by my own Front Bench and is obviously getting between many Members of the Opposition and whatever they have in mind before they can execute it. But I want to speak to what I think is a very...

• Great British Energy Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 67 13 Jan 2025

  I was promised by the Conservative Government a land use framework by Christmas 2022; I did not get it. I was promised it by Christmas 2023; I did not get it. I would like it now from a Labour Government.

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