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• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• Has never voted on university tuition fees
• Voted for more EU integration Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 13 absences, between 2008–2011
• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons

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Recent appearances

• Nuclear Energy: Small Modular Reactors - Question 24 Apr 2017

  My Lords—

• European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - Second Reading (1st Day) 20 Feb 2017

  My Lords, it is always a privilege to follow my former colleague from down the Corridor and to hear him speak so eloquently on human rights issues, on which I fully agree with him. I will not engage with his comments on the internal affairs of Scotland but I will speak about the consequences of this Bill in relation to the internal structure of the United Kingdom and the relationships between...

• Wales Bill - Third Reading 18 Jan 2017

  My Lords, I add my thanks to the Minister, who is an old colleague of mine—sorry, not an old colleague but a former colleague—in the National Assembly. His great achievement then, which I have alluded to before, even in this place perhaps, was converting the Welsh Conservative Party into a Welsh Conservative Party and a pro-devolution Conservative Party, as we saw most firmly yesterday in...

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Plaid Cymru Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 18 September 1992

Party was Crossbench until 18 Jan 2012

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Other offices held in the past

• Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales (12 May 1999 to 6 May 2011)
• Member, Select Committee on the Ceremony of Introduction (17 Dec 1997 to 30 Apr 1998)
• Member, European Union Committee (12 Nov 1996 to 19 Nov 1998)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee C (22 Nov 1994 to 19 Nov 1998)
• Member, Welsh Affairs Committee (17 Jun 1987 to 17 Apr 1989)
• Leader of Plaid Cymru (1 Jul 1984 to 1 Jul 1991)
• Member, Education, Science & Arts Committee (3 May 1979 to 9 Jun 1983)

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• Has spoken in 0 debates in the last year — below average amongst Lords. See all Lord Elis-Thomas’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 3.13% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 44 times in debates — below average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)