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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 11 January 2011

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Currently held offices

• Member, Restoration and Renewal Client Board Committee (since 22 Jul 2024)
• Shadow Leader of the House of Lords (since 8 Jul 2024)
• Member, Lord Speaker's Advisory Panel on Works of Art (since 23 May 2024)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (since 20 Oct 2022)
• Member, Committee of Selection (Lords) (since 12 Oct 2022)
• Member, House of Lords Commission (since 12 Oct 2022)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Restoration and Renewal Client Board Committee (17 Oct 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal ( 6 Sep 2022 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (13 Feb 2020 to 5 Sep 2022)
• Member, Constitution Committee ( 1 Jul 2019 to 24 Feb 2020)
• Chair, Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Committee (17 May 2018 to 26 Mar 2019)
• Chair, Intergenerational Fairness and Provision Committee (17 May 2018 to 26 Mar 2019)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee ( 8 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2019)
• Member, House Committee (Lords) (22 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee ( 2 Nov 2011 to 30 Mar 2015)

Recent appearances

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (5th Day) (Continued): Amendment 103 1 Apr 2025

  My Lords, this goes wider than the Bill. That is the second or third time that we have heard the doctrine that this House must never propose or suggest anything that the other House might disagree with. This is the revising Chamber and, even if we fear that the House of Commons might disagree with what we propose, in our wisdom we have every right, on every Bill, to ask the House of Commons...

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (5th Day): Amendment 90E 1 Apr 2025

  The noble Lord has returned to the question of numbers, completely ignoring the points I made about other ways of addressing that. I set that to one side but, as I understood it, his concept was, “Well, you”—I do not think that he can have meant me—“can send some people here if you want to”. The Government are about to expel 44 of our people. Is the noble Lord saying that the...

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (5th Day): Amendment 90E 1 Apr 2025

  My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Mobarik for initiating this debate and all those who spoke, notably those formidable Baronesses, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Foster and Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. I believe that a number of our colleagues who face summary exclusion under this Bill will have been greatly touched by what my noble friend...

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