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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 1 July 2010

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Currently held offices

• Member, UK Engagement with Space Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)
• Member, Financial Services Regulation Committee (since 24 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Industry and Regulators Committee (14 Apr 2021 to 31 Jan 2023)
• Chair, EU Services Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2020 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Chair, EU Services Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2020 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Chair, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee ( 2 Jul 2019 to 23 Apr 2020)
• Chair, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee ( 2 Jul 2019 to 23 Apr 2020)
• Member, European Union Committee ( 1 Jul 2019 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Member, Conduct Committee ( 9 May 2019 to 31 Jan 2023)
• Member, SLSC Sub-Committee B (16 Oct 2018 to 30 Apr 2019)
• Member, Sub-Committee on Lords' Conduct (18 Jul 2018 to 18 Jul 2018)
• Member, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (23 Jun 2015 to 2 Jul 2019)
• Chair, Information Committee (Lords) (12 Jun 2014 to 31 Aug 2016)
• Chair, Information Committee (Lords) (12 Jun 2014 to 31 Aug 2016)
• Member, Personal Service Companies Committee (12 Nov 2013 to 31 Mar 2014)

Recent appearances

• International Women’s Day - Motion to Take Note 6 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Rafferty on her wonderful maiden speech. She is as qualified to speak about women succeeding in science as I am unqualified. She has done so many pioneering things in nurse education that I must confine myself to but a few of them: the first nurse to graduate with a doctorate from Oxford University—a DPhil in modern history; in 2008, she was...

• Conduct Committee - Motion to Agree: Amendment to the Motion 5 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I chair the Steering Group for Change, which advises and supports the House of Lords Commission and the management board on continued efforts to improve the workplace culture of the House. We create a space where Members and staff can work together in an open and collaborative way. The effectiveness of the House of Lords relies on strong working relationships between Members of the...

• Creative Industries: Creating Jobs and Productivity Growth - Motion to Take Note 6 Feb 2025

  My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Thornton for this debate, and it is great to see her on top form. My inspiration has always been the theatre. To be taken as a schoolchild to Stratford by our English teacher to see, for example, Paul Scofield’s “King Lear” or Vanessa Redgrave and Peter O’Toole in “The Taming of the Shrew”, established a lifetime interest. It was positively...

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