A selection of Lord Winston's votes

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• Has never voted on raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
• Has never voted on fewer MPs in the House of Commons
• Has never voted on more EU integration
• Voted a mixture of for and against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 6 absences, in 2011
• Generally voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 1 absence, in 2010

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Recent appearances

• Gene Editing: Agriculture and Medicine - Question 27 Mar 2017

  My Lords, can the Minister confirm that the Government have no plans to extend gene editing to germ cells, as was suggested in the Times only three weeks ago, with the idea that we could wipe out genetic disease using gene editing? This seems an extremely dangerous idea, given that there are epigenetic and other issues with gene editing, which may not be quite as precise and effective as is...

• EU Membership: UK Science - Motion to Take Note 23 Mar 2017

  I was going to be very trivial by wondering whether the Minister might care to apply for the vacant post of the reproductive professor at Imperial.

• EU Membership: UK Science - Motion to Take Note 23 Mar 2017

  I first thank the noble Earl, Lord Selborne, for his extraordinarily good chairmanship of the Select Committee; I remember very well from when I was a member of that Select Committee some time ago his wisdom in leading our inquiries and debates. In response to the excellent report that the Select Committee has produced, the Government state that, “a global Britain must … be a...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1995

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (Higher education in STEM subjects) (13 Sep 2011 to 17 Jul 2012)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (22 Jun 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill (Joint Committee) (9 May 2007 to 8 Aug 2007)
• Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 (13 Nov 2002 to 12 Nov 2009)
• Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 (24 Nov 1998 to 11 May 2001)
• Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I (6 Oct 1997 to 11 May 2001)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (28 Oct 1996 to 8 Nov 2006)

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• Has spoken in 19 debates in the last year — above average amongst Lords. See all Lord Winston’s speeches
• Has received answers to 4 written questions in the last year — above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 22.61% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 2 annotations on this Lord’s speeches — above average amongst Lords.
• 8 people are tracking this peer — email me updates on Lord Winston’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 195 times in debates — above average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)