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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 13 July 2010

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee) (22 Jul 2021 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee (13 Jun 2019 to 16 Jun 2020)
• Member, Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee (11 Jun 2015 to 22 Mar 2016)
• Member, Privacy and Injunctions (Joint Committee) (18 Jul 2011 to 12 Mar 2012)
• Member, Information Committee (Lords) (22 Jun 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Recent appearances

• Artificial Intelligence: News Media - Question 7 Jul 2025

  To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of artificial intelligence on the sustainability and reliability of the news media.

• Artificial Intelligence: News Media - Question 7 Jul 2025

  My Lords, in begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I declare my interest as deputy chairman of the Telegraph Media Group.

• Artificial Intelligence: News Media - Question 7 Jul 2025

  My Lords, AI poses an existential threat to independent media because of the way it scrapes their high-quality content without either attribution or payment to those who created it, which is an act of theft directly threatening the provision of quality news and the jobs of thousands of reporters. Is the Minister aware that research by market leader Cloudflare shows that, for example, for...

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