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Former Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1990

Left the House of Lords on 20 December 2024

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Currently held offices

• Member, Preterm Birth Committee (since 24 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee) (22 Jul 2004 to 11 Jul 2005)

Recent appearances

• Small Farms and Family Businesses - Motion to Take Note 12 Dec 2024

  My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness’s interesting speech, for which I thank her. Farming should be a really important subject of concern. In this country, we are 50% reliant on food from abroad. The Government may well stock vaccines for pandemics, increase GP numbers and cut health service waiting lists—all moves to appease critics—but we must never forget...

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Prescriptions 4 Nov 2024

  To ask His Majesty's Government why there is disparity in the legal prescribing rights of various professions when nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, therapeutic and diagnostic radiographers, dietitians and paramedics all undertake prescribing training together, and are assessed in the same way.

• Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants 25 Oct 2024

  To ask His Majesty's Government when they will respond to the report by the Patient Safety Commissioner The Hughes Report: Options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh, published on 7 February.

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