A selection of Lord Hunt of Chesterton's votes

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• Has never voted on an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency
• Voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 1 absence, in 2010
• Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 7 votes for, 0 votes against, 8 absences, between 2008–2011
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year

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Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Leader of the House of Lords: Insolvency 28 Mar 2018

  To ask the Leader of the House what plans she has to propose a debate in the House of Lords on their consultation on Insolvency and Corporate Governance, announced on 20 March.

• Nuclear Safeguards Bill - Report 20 Mar 2018

  My Lords, an important point about Euratom is that it had a research programme on connecting fusion and fission. A long-range problem in the nuclear industry is finding ways of dealing with nuclear waste. As the Euratom programme showed, one way of doing that in future would be to connect it to fusion, because fusion produces fast neutrons that can process waste and give it a shorter...

• Incident in Salisbury - Statement 8 Mar 2018

  My Lords, Porton is a very famous laboratory and works very closely with the US and other countries. Could the Minister assure us that there are already comparisons and supportive investigations of that sort?

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Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 16 May 2000

Positions held at time of appointment: Professor of Climate Modelling, Department of Space and Climate Physics and Geological Sciences and Honorary Professor of Mathematics, University College London (from Number 10 press release)

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Currently held offices

• Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (since 8 Jun 2015)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, The Arctic Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 11 Feb 2015)
• Member, Draft Marine Bill (Joint Committee) (13 May 2008 to 22 Jul 2008)
• Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (3 Dec 2003 to 18 Nov 2004)
• Member, Committee On Animals In Scientific Procedures (28 Jun 2001 to 16 Jul 2002)
• Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 (26 Jun 2001 to 7 Nov 2002)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 20 debates in the last year — above average amongst Lords. See all Lord Hunt of Chesterton’s speeches
• Has received answers to 26 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 30.55% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 7 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") 165 times in debates — above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)