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Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 29 March 2010

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Currently held offices

• Member, Liaison Committee (Lords) (since 31 Jan 2023)
• Member, Committee of Selection (Lords) (since 31 Jan 2023)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Public Services Committee (13 Feb 2020 to 31 Jan 2023)
• Member, Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Committee (17 May 2018 to 26 Mar 2019)
• Member, Select Committee on Charities (25 May 2016 to 26 Mar 2017)
• Member, Public Service and Demographic Change Committee (29 May 2012 to 5 Mar 2013)
• Member, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (16 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Deputy Chairman of Committees (16 May 2012 to 6 Jul 2016)
• Member, Leader's Group on Working Practices Committee (27 Jul 2010 to 26 Apr 2011)

Recent appearances

• Lifelong Learning - Motion to Take Note 6 Feb 2025

  My Lords, I declare an interest as chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Knight, on securing the debate, and the noble Baroness, Lady Curran, on her maiden speech. It is a short congratulations because I am already running out of time; I apologise for that. In the mid-1990s, I was Permanent Secretary at what was then the Department for Education...

• Growing the UK Economy - Statement 3 Feb 2025

  My Lords, can the Minister reassure both me and the House that the Government and the Treasury understand that growth in the economy is about investing not just in capital projects but in people? We have seen an underinvestment in skills for the last 15 years. Are we going to see another few years when the skills element of growth is not given a priority? We are going to be debating it later...

• Health and Social Care: Winter Update - Statement 21 Jan 2025

  I too acknowledge the commitment and effort being made, and also, of course, the commitment on the front line. I am not a health professional—and I feel particularly conscious of that, given some of the people in the Chamber this afternoon—but I have spent too much time in the last 12 months as a client and had much time to reflect upon the fact that the problems with the health service...

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