Profile

Liberal Democrat Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 26 June 2006

Positions held at time of appointment: Director of Finance South West, and former Member of the European Parliament. (from Number 10 press release)

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Other offices held in the past

• Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change) (12 May 2022 to 8 Jan 2024)
• Member, International Relations and Defence Committee (28 Jan 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
• Chair, EU Environment Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2020 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Chair, EU Environment Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2020 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Chair, EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee (26 May 2016 to 23 Apr 2020)
• Chair, EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee (26 May 2016 to 23 Apr 2020)
• Member, European Union Committee (25 May 2016 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Member, Finance Bill Sub-Committee ( 8 Dec 2015 to 4 Mar 2016)
• Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Energy and Climate Change) ( 7 Sep 2015 to 30 Nov 2015)
• Member, Economic Affairs Committee ( 8 Jun 2015 to 12 May 2016)
• Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Transport) ( 1 Jun 2015 to 7 Sep 2015)
• Chair, The Arctic Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 11 Feb 2015)
• Chair, The Arctic Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 11 Feb 2015)
• Chair, EU Sub Committee C - External Affairs (17 May 2012 to 21 May 2013)
• Chair, EU Sub Committee C - External Affairs (17 May 2012 to 21 May 2013)
• Chair, EU Sub-Committee C - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy (22 Jun 2010 to 16 May 2012)
• Spokesperson and team leader for Climate Change and Energy (30 Jan 2009 to 11 May 2010)
• Spokesperson for Climate Change and Energy (29 Jan 2009 to 30 Jan 2009)
• Spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( 8 Jan 2009 to 29 Jan 2009)
• Member, European Union Committee ( 9 Dec 2008 to 15 May 2013)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee C - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy ( 9 Dec 2008 to 22 Jun 2010)
• Spokesperson in the Lords, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (27 Jul 2007 to 8 Jan 2009)
• Whip ( 6 Jul 2007 to 8 Jan 2009)
• Member, Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee) (23 Apr 2007 to 3 Aug 2007)
• Spokesperson in the Lords (Climate Change), Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (10 Jan 2007 to 27 Jul 2007)
• Whip (10 Jan 2007 to 5 Jul 2007)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee F - Home Affairs (21 Nov 2006 to 26 Nov 2008)

Recent appearances

• Combat Air Capability - Question 10 Oct 2024

  My Lords, is the Minister confident that we can keep one Vanguard submarine at sea at all times, given the strain there is on crew and our loss of crew because of the increasingly long time each mission has to take because of maintenance of the rest of the fleet?

• Public Sector Productivity - Question for Short Debate 9 Oct 2024

  My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on getting this debate because it is an important subject, as she said, and one that affects all services and the way that the state works for individuals, although I have to say that her speech sounded a bit like a post-mortem on Tory government for the past nine years. Never mind—we will leave that aside for the moment. I was a corporate...

• Ethiopia and Somalia - Question 7 Oct 2024

  My Lords, what conversations are the Government having with the Somaliland Administration about the potential agreement for a port with Ethiopia? There is a regional organisation in east Africa called IGAD, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development. Is that a body that we can work with to try to calm down some of these tensions?

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