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Entered the House of Lords in 1985

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Currently held offices

• Chair, Constitution Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)
• Chair, Constitution Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (since 31 Jan 2023)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Constitution Committee (31 Jan 2023 to 30 Jan 2025)
• Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (12 May 2010 to 7 Jan 2013)
• Leader of the Opposition In the House of Lords, Parliament ( 6 Jan 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Shadow Leader of the House of Lords, Parliament ( 9 Jul 2007 to 9 Jul 2007)
• Leader of Opposition In the House of Lords, Parliament ( 9 Jul 2007 to 6 Jan 2009)
• Leader of the Opposition In the House of Lords, Parliament (16 Dec 2005 to 6 Jul 2007)
• Leader of the Opposition In the House of Lords, House of Lords (17 Mar 2005 to 16 Dec 2005)
• Leader of the Opposition In the House of Lords, Parliament (10 May 2004 to 17 Mar 2005)
• Member, House Committee (Lords) (19 Nov 2002 to 9 Jan 2013)
• Member, Finance and Staff Sub Committee (17 Dec 1998 to 7 Nov 2002)
• Member, Liaison Committee (Lords) (14 Dec 1998 to 9 Jan 2013)
• Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 (24 Oct 1996 to 8 Apr 1997)
• Member, Committee of Selection (Lords) (17 Nov 1994 to 9 Jan 2013)
• Member, Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords) (10 Oct 1994 to 9 Jan 2013)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (10 Oct 1994 to 9 Jan 2013)
• Member, Adminstration Sub Committee (10 Oct 1994 to 19 Nov 1998)
• Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords) (20 Jul 1994 to 8 Apr 1997)
• Minister of State (Department of Trade and Industry) (11 Jan 1993 to 20 Jul 1994)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Environment) (26 Jul 1992 to 7 Sep 1993)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scottish Office) ( 7 Sep 1990 to 28 Nov 1992)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Employment) (26 Jul 1989 to 24 Jul 1990)
• Member, Library and Computers Sub Committee ( 6 Dec 1988 to 1 Nov 1990)
• Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) (12 Aug 1988 to 24 Jul 1989)

Recent appearances

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (4th Day) (Continued): Amendment 90A 25 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I can tell the noble Lord, Lord Newby, that I have not given up on the idea of an elected House, but I am a realist, and I do not think that there is much thirst for it in this House—and I am not entirely convinced that there is very much thirst for it in another place either. The fact that it did not appear in the manifesto of the Labour...

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (4th Day) (Continued): Amendment 90A 25 Mar 2025

  My Lords, the night is young and there is still plenty of time, so it is a real delight to move Amendment 90A in front of an audience of the Labour Party on its Benches. I have to tell noble Lords opposite that their own Front Bench has been working valiantly during the days we have spent on this Bill with near-deserted Back Benches. It has been rather depressing, in just the last few...

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (4th Day): Amendment 71 25 Mar 2025

  Ain’t going to happen.

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