A selection of Lord Lucas’s votes

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

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Recent appearances

• Schools Bill [HL] - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 101 18 Jul 2022

  My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, for explaining her amendment to us. I am liberal rather than post-modern; I believe in the objective being one united society where we are all equal, rather than in the fractured values which her amendment proposes. It is really important that what we teach in schools covers all our experiences and all the threads that make up the...

• Schools Bill [HL] - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 87 18 Jul 2022

  My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that extensive explanation and her many good answers. I am delighted, too, that she is being so supportive of the campaign of the noble Lord, Lord Storey. With regard to her last answer in relation to Amendment 110, I look forward to sharing with her the correspondence I have had with the chief inspector, who takes a different view, but this can...

• Schools Bill [HL] - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 87 18 Jul 2022

  My Lords, in moving this amendment I will also speak to my other amendments in this group. This group is looking at the stage of the process at which penalties start to come in. I feel that the wording of the Bill is at the moment far too hair-trigger. The words that Amendment 87 seeks to replace mean that a local authority must tip a home-educating parent, or a parent, into the school...

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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1991

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Currently held offices

• Member, Environment and Climate Change Committee (since 14 Apr 2021)
• Member, Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee (since 13 Jun 2019)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee (17 May 2018 to 19 Mar 2019)
• 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, 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)