A selection of Lord Aberdare's votes

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• Voted a mixture of for and against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 3 votes for, 2 votes against, 2 absences, in 2011
• Consistently voted for university tuition fees Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, in 2010
• Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, in 2010
• Voted a mixture of for and against more EU integration Show votes 1 vote for, 2 votes against, 3 absences, in 2011
• Consistently voted for fewer MPs in the House of Commons Show votes 2 votes for, 0 votes against, 1 absence, in 2011

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Recent appearances

• Schools: Careers Advice - Question 19 Jun 2019

  My Lords, one of the Gatsby benchmarks of quality in careers education states that students should have opportunities for personal, face-to-face guidance interviews with fully qualified careers professionals. What are the Government doing to tackle the known shortage of such skilled professionals and the lack of funding available to schools to employ them? Will they consider offering training...

• Procedure Committee - Motion to Agree 21 May 2019

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• Written Answers — Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Heritage Lottery Fund: Public Records 16 May 2019

  To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 24 April (HL Deb, cols 600–602) on records held by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that the fund took legal advice and that even if it had retained the records, “it would not have been able to make them available”, what was the nature of the legal advice taken; and on what grounds it was argued that such...

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Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 20 July 2009

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Currently held offices

• Member, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (since 23 Jun 2015)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Digital Skills Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 4 Feb 2015)
• Member, Information Committee (Lords) (16 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 18 debates in the last year — above average amongst Lords. See all Lord Aberdare’s speeches
• Has received answers to 3 written questions in the last year — above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 58.27% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — above average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 51 times in debates — average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)