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Entered the House of Lords on 22 January 1996

Party was Bishop until 31 Mar 2017

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) ( 5 Sep 2024 to 30 Jan 2025)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (19 Jan 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, SLSC Sub-Committee A ( 4 Sep 2018 to 30 Apr 2019)
• Member, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (15 May 2018 to 19 Jan 2022)

Recent appearances

• Schools: Mobile Phones - Motion to Take Note 28 Nov 2024

  My Lords, speaking on this subject after the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, is rather like Ruth gleaning after a combine harvester. I agree with absolutely everything she said in her masterful summary of the subject. The statistic that haunts me at night is one about people who have just left our schools. It is from the Office for National Statistics; we are told that this year there are...

• Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases - Motion to Take Note 18 Jan 2024

  I am particularly glad to follow my noble friend Lord Carrington because he has enabled me to, among other things, shorten my own remarks. “Thanks noble Trees, our Entish Lord For laying bare the grievous ills Impending on our scepter’d isle. England, set in a silver sea That doth no longer serve us In the office of a wall or as A moat defensive to a house, Is subject to mounting...

• King’s Speech - Debate (5th Day) 14 Nov 2023

  My Lords, research done by the House of Lords Appointments Commission points to the fact that your Lordships’ House still has some way to go in the fields of diversity—in particular, regional diversity. Therefore, it is particularly refreshing, and good, that we now have a fresh, eloquent, new voice from the north-east. I join other noble Lords in congratulating the right reverend Prelate...

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