Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 3 May 2000

Positions held at time of appointment: Non-Executive Director and Consultant, Charterhouse Bank Ltd (from Number 10 press release)

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Built Environment Committee (14 Apr 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Chair, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords) ( 9 Jul 2015 to 9 Jul 2015)
• Chair, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords) ( 9 Jul 2015 to 9 Jul 2015)
• Member, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords) ( 9 Jul 2015 to 1 Feb 2018)
• Member, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords) (14 Jan 2013 to 9 Jul 2015)
• Member, Draft Communications Data Bill (Joint Committee) (28 Jun 2012 to 28 Nov 2012)
• Member, Draft Communications Data Bill (Joint Committee) (28 Jun 2012 to 28 Nov 2012)
• Member, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Committee (29 May 2012 to 28 Feb 2013)
• Member, European Union Committee (21 Nov 2006 to 8 Apr 2010)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs, and International Trade (21 Nov 2006 to 8 Apr 2010)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee B - Internal Market (26 Nov 2003 to 7 May 2005)
• Member, Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) ( 9 Dec 2002 to 21 Nov 2007)
• Member, Draft Communications Bill (Joint Committee) (29 Apr 2002 to 7 Nov 2002)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee B (26 Jan 2001 to 20 Nov 2003)

Recent appearances

• Assisted Dying Bill [HL] - Second Reading: Amendment to the Motion 22 Oct 2021

  My Lords, I support the Bill and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, very much for introducing it. The present law is unacceptable and I have an additional reason to suggest to the House why this is so. My mother, already widowed for 50 years by the 1980s, and accustomed to making all her own decisions, joined an organisation called Exit. This organisation had been set up by brave people...

• Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL] - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 35 21 Oct 2021

  My Lords, anybody who has sat in a meeting with heads of education can imagine discussions to work out how not to offer pupils at age 16—I do not have much knowledge of provision below that level—a full and free choice as frequently as possible, because of worries about redecorating classrooms, hiring more teachers or the other income-related things that heads need to think about. While I...

• Apprenticeships - Motion to Take Note 4 Jul 2019

  I too thank my noble friend Lord Young of Norwood Green for introducing this debate. I declare an interest as a board member of a multi-academy trust in Cambridge and vice-chairman of one of the university technical colleges set up under the auspices of the Baker Dearing Educational Trust. I also have past form: until recently I was chancellor of BPP University, which is a provider to most...

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