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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1998

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Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Spokesperson (Culture, Media and Sport) (27 Oct 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Work and Pensions) (21 Feb 2023 to 26 Oct 2023)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Education) (21 Feb 2023 to 26 Oct 2023)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Equalities and Women's Issues) (18 May 2021 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Health) (10 Jan 2018 to 10 May 2022)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Health) ( 1 Nov 2017 to 9 Jan 2018)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Equalities and Women's Issues) (17 Oct 2011 to 1 Jul 2015)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Health) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 6 Sep 2012)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health (25 Mar 2010 to 11 May 2010)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (19 Feb 2010 to 6 May 2010)
• Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) (18 Feb 2008 to 19 Feb 2010)
• Government Whip (25 Jan 2008 to 25 Mar 2010)
• Member, Communications and Digital Committee (23 Apr 2007 to 18 Dec 2008)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee D ( 6 Dec 1999 to 30 Nov 2000)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee C (24 Nov 1998 to 11 Nov 1999)

Recent appearances

• National Youth Strategy - Statement 20 Nov 2024

  My Lords, I would like to address the issue of why we are taking this Statement so late in the evening, and the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Addington. My understanding—I know that my noble friend on the Front Bench is too polite to say this—is that this was arranged so that the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, could be here to defend what is presumably the jewel in his crown. If that is not...

• Children’s Social Care - Statement 19 Nov 2024

  My Lords, the Competition and Markets Authority concluded in a recent report: “The UK has sleepwalked into a dysfunctional children’s social care market”. That is on the Benches opposite. I raised this as a question a few weeks ago, when my noble friend the Minister agreed to have a conversation about the diversity of suppliers that are needed in this sector: social enterprises,...

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