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Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 14 September 2004

Positions held at time of appointment: Secretary-General, European Convention. (from Number 10 press release)

• Wikipedia page

Other offices held in the past

• Member, International Agreements Committee (23 Apr 2020 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Member, EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee ( 2 Jul 2019 to 23 Apr 2020)
• Member, European Union Committee ( 1 Jul 2019 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Member, Finance Bill Sub-Committee ( 8 Dec 2015 to 4 Mar 2016)
• Member, Economic Affairs Committee ( 8 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2019)
• Member, European Union Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, EU Sub Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs (17 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs, and International Trade (22 Jun 2010 to 16 May 2012)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee E - Justice and Institutions ( 9 Dec 2008 to 17 Oct 2011)
• Member, European Union Committee (21 Nov 2006 to 8 Apr 2010)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs, and International Trade (29 Nov 2004 to 26 Nov 2008)

Recent appearances

• Sudan - Motion to Take Note 13 Sep 2024

  My Lords, I join those thanking the noble Lord, Lord Collins, for securing this debate and pay tribute to his long and sustained personal interest in Africa. I feel that we ought, as a country, to acknowledge some responsibility for the ongoing disaster in Sudan. For half a century, we were the colonial power. I was taught at university by a former governor of the Blue Nile province. He was a...

• Watchdogs (Industry and Regulators Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note 9 Sep 2024

  I was lucky enough to serve on the economic committee when the noble Lord, Lord Hollick, was chairing it, so the quality of the report and the skill with which he introduced it tonight came as no surprise to me. I shall pick up what it says about transparency and accountability and draw on two examples to illustrate the point made very powerfully in the report at paragraphs 83 and 85. I shall...

• Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report - Statement 9 Sep 2024

  One of the striking and shocking aspects of this brilliant report is the proof that requiring regulators to operate commercially, competing for business, risks their capture by business. Grenfell shows the piper playing the tune that business wanted and that cost lives. I hope the Government will take up the recommendation to have a single regulator for the construction industry, and I really...

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