A selection of the Marquess of Salisbury's votes

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• Has never voted on university tuition fees
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• 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

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Recent appearances

• Feed-in Tariffs (Closure, etc.) Order 2018 - Motion to Regret 4 Mar 2019

  My Lords, I support the noble Baroness’s Motion of regret. It is almost inevitable that a debate such as this will range more widely than the specific issues that the noble Baroness is focused on. I hope your Lordships will forgive me for beginning in Salisbury, my cathedral city, on a day when there has been a considerable amount of reflection about events there a year ago and their...

• Recycling - Question 13 Feb 2019

  My Lords, the issue is not only recycle and reuse but reduce. I was at the celebration of the first anniversary of the Eco Synagogue a few weeks ago and saw real alternatives to plastic being developed by industry, such as Indonesian seaweed to replace 16 billion packets of ketchup, mayonnaise and the like. Alternatives are being produced but industry is so heavily invested in the production...

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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 29 April 1992

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Other offices held in the past

• Leader of the Opposition, House of Lords (1 May 1997 to 2 Dec 1998)
• Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords (20 Jul 1994 to 1 May 1997)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (19 Oct 1992 to 8 Apr 1997)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (22 Apr 1992 to 20 Jul 1994)
• Member, Procedure Committee (9 Jun 1983 to 28 Jan 1987)

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• Has spoken in 2 debates in the last year — below average amongst Lords. See all the Marquess of Salisbury’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 0.00% 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") 73 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)