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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 24 June 2010

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Currently held offices

• Chair, Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence (since 23 Apr 2025)
• Chair, Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence (since 23 Apr 2025)
• Member, Restoration and Renewal Client Board Committee (since 22 Jul 2024)
• Member, Parliamentary Works Estimates Commission (since 30 Jun 2021)
• Chair, Hybrid Instruments Committee (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Hybrid Instruments Committee (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Liaison Committee (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Liaison Committee (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Procedure and Privileges Committee (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Procedure and Privileges Committee (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Committee of Selection (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Committee of Selection (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Chair, Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords) (since 13 May 2021)
• Member, House of Lords Commission (since 13 May 2021)
• The Senior Deputy Speaker (since 11 May 2021)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (since 17 Jul 2016)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Restoration and Renewal Client Board Committee (17 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Sub-Committee on Leave of Absence (30 Apr 2021 to 23 Apr 2025)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (17 Jul 2016 to 10 May 2021)
• Member, Refreshment Committee (Lords) (11 Jun 2015 to 31 Aug 2016)
• Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords) (12 May 2015 to 17 Jul 2016)
• Member, Joint Committee on Security (22 Oct 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Lords Spokesperson (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) ( 9 Jan 2013 to 7 May 2015)
• Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) ( 6 Sep 2012 to 7 May 2015)
• Member, HIV and AIDS Committee in the United Kingdom (20 Dec 2010 to 19 Jul 2011)
• Member, HIV and AIDS Committee in the United Kingdom (20 Dec 2010 to 19 Jul 2011)

Recent appearances

• Conduct Committee - Membership Motion 12 Jun 2025

  My Lords, as noble Lords know, the Conduct Committee is made up of five Peer members and four external members. The first group of four external members was appointed in autumn 2019 for an initial three years, renewable for a further three years—in other words, until later this year. To help maintain continuity, two of the external members have kindly agreed to step down a few months early,...

• Conduct Committee - Membership Motion 12 Jun 2025

  I am grateful to the noble Lord. To clarify, the rotation of Peer members is a matter that will be coming before the Procedure and Privileges Committee. My understanding is that it was originally not intended that Peer members should be subject to the three-year rotation rule for this committee. That appears at some time to have blended into the three-year rotation. This matter arose, as...

• Conduct Committee - Membership Motion 12 Jun 2025

  I am seeking to say that it was originally not intended that the Conduct Committee membership should be subject to the three-year rotation rule. It appears that this needs to be resolved, and that is why it has come up for consideration by the Procedure Committee. Obviously, I cannot pre-empt what the Procedure Committee or your Lordships may decide—I am very well aware of that—but I am...

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