A selection of Lord Lucas's votes

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• Consistently voted for university tuition fees Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2010
• Generally voted against more EU integration Show votes 1 vote for, 10 votes against, 4 absences, between 2008–2011
• Consistently voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, in 2010
• Generally voted for an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 4 votes for, 0 votes against, 3 absences, in 2011
• Voted a mixture of for and against fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, 2 absences, in 2011

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Recent appearances

• Technical and Further Education Bill - Report 27 Mar 2017

  I am grateful for what my noble friend said on my amendments, but to turn to the main group, where she has adumbrated some new ideas in very few words, might we have a meeting between Report and Third Reading so that we can better understand the details of what is proposed?

• Technical and Further Education Bill - Report 27 Mar 2017

  My Lords, I am mostly comforted by my noble friend’s reference to employer-led matters. If that indicates that if employers want a qualification and fight hard enough they will get it, that seems to me satisfactory. Therefore, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 22 withdrawn.

• Technical and Further Education Bill - Report 27 Mar 2017

  My Lords, I completely support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Garden. I do not think that any Peer who has been involved in the Bill wishes it anything other than complete success. We are all behind the objectives and the methodology which is set out in the Sainsbury report and what has been built upon that. We want to ensure in the passage of the Bill that what we are...

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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1991

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee (13 Sep 2016 to 9 Nov 2016)
• Member, Digital Skills Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 4 Feb 2015)
• Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (Higher education in STEM subjects) (29 Nov 2011 to 17 Jul 2012)
• Member, Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee (14 Nov 2007 to 8 Dec 2011)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee E - Justice and Institutions (24 May 2005 to 30 Nov 2007)
• Member, Draft Civil Contingencies Bill (Joint Committee) (11 Jul 2003 to 28 Nov 2003)
• Member, Information Committee (Lords) (25 Nov 2002 to 20 Nov 2003)
• Member, Committee On Animals In Scientific Procedures (28 Jun 2001 to 16 Jul 2002)
• Member, Library and Computers Sub Committee (26 Jun 2001 to 7 Nov 2002)
• Member, Library and Computers Sub Committee (28 Nov 1995 to 8 Apr 1997)
• Member, Works of Art Committee (Lords) (22 Nov 1994 to 8 Nov 1995)

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• Has spoken in 31 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Lords. See all Lord Lucas’s speeches
• Has received answers to 7 written questions in the last year — above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 46.22% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 4 annotations on this Lord’s speeches — above average amongst Lords.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 957 times in debates — well above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)