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Entered the House of Lords on 25 January 2006

Party was Bishop until 7 Jun 2020

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• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Committee (3rd Day): Amendment 66 9 Jun 2025

  My Lords, when I was a vicar in Tulse Hill in the early 1980s, five young women came to see me. Four had been abused by their fathers. The youngest was eight at the time it happened. Working with them, listening to them, finding help that would restore who they truly were was a very long journey, but I am glad to say that all of them have now taken on professions that I did not think were...

• Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Commons Reason: Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) 4 Jun 2025

  My Lords, I do not want to detain the House for long. I have sat through every stage of the Bill and not uttered a word. I have been absorbing the debate, and I am still puzzled as to why the Government are not willing to reach agreement with some of the wonderful statements being made. I have two issues to reflect on. The first is that the creative arts have had a fantastic campaign, but it...

• Jimmy Lai - Question 22 May 2025

  My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Saint Albans. He has been wonderful on the gambling legislation and on issues such as this one, and on defending the rural economy and as Convenor of the Lords Spiritual. For that, we are very grateful. I was held in one of Amin’s notorious prisons, and I was confined in a cell that was much shorter than me. I got out...

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