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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1999

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Communications and Digital Committee (25 Feb 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Member, Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee (13 Jun 2019 to 16 Jun 2020)
• Chair, Political Polling and Digital Media Committee (29 Jun 2017 to 20 Mar 2018)
• Chair, Political Polling and Digital Media Committee (29 Jun 2017 to 20 Mar 2018)
• Member, Long-Term Sustainability of the NHS Committee (25 May 2016 to 5 Apr 2017)
• Member, Information Committee (Lords) (10 Jan 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Finance Bill Sub-Committee ( 4 Dec 2012 to 5 Mar 2013)
• Member, Economic Affairs Committee (25 Nov 2009 to 14 May 2014)

Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: River Wye: Conservation 11 Sep 2024

  To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they are making with regard to their River Wye Action Plan, published on 12 April.

• Media Bill - Report and Third Reading: Amendment 11 23 May 2024

  My Lords, my name appears on all three amendments in this group and therefore it is very tempting to make a long speech on all of them. But I will not do that; I am going to confine myself to the absolutely ghastly procedural and constitutional hole we are in. I think that for a lot of this stuff to go through wash-up is a breach of the constitution and the understanding of the constitution...

• Media Bill - Report and Third Reading: Amendment 11 23 May 2024

  That is right. He has succeeded; I have lost my thread. If we had had more time or if the phrase “extended consensus” had been interpreted more widely, these matters could have been dealt with. In the end, we will end up with an unnecessarily flawed Bill and a subject to which an incoming Government—as long as they are not a Conservative one—will have to devote their time. We could...

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