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Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1974

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee ( 9 Jun 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Hybrid Instruments Committee (Lords) ( 2 Dec 1993 to 7 May 2005)

Recent appearances

• Holocaust Memorial Bill - Second Reading: Amendment to the Motion 4 Sep 2024

  My Lords, speaking very much as a local Westminster inhabitant, I declare an interest in being affected by the proposals in this Bill to my local park. But in addition to recording its negative effects on the more general and longer-term users of this park, while trying to take in the wider aspects of the issues before us, I will list a number of individual shortcomings in the process of this...

• King’s Speech - Debate (7th Day) 25 Jul 2024

  My Lords, I am grateful to be able to contribute today on the role that international development plays in the FCDO. In that department’s various guises, that has been one of my main interests in my time in this House, mainly in the form of what one might now call demography, or population dynamics. I hope that might be regarded as important in its own way, allowing a disordered world to...

• Office for Demographic Change Bill [HL] - Second Reading 4 Mar 2022

  My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, on introducing this Bill and the way that he has done it; I speak very much in support of it. I spoke in favour of these same ideas contained in an amendment previously offered by the noble Lord in the Immigration Bill. It was resisted by the then Minister, mainly on the grounds that immigration was covered by the...

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