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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 10 January 2011

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Currently held offices

• Member, Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)
• Deputy Speaker (Lords) (since 5 Mar 2018)
• Deputy Chairman of Committees (since 6 Nov 2017)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Windsor Framework Sub-Committee (16 Jan 2024 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee (31 Jan 2023 to 23 Nov 2023)
• Member, EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee (23 Apr 2020 to 31 Mar 2021)
• Member, EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee ( 9 Sep 2019 to 23 Apr 2020)
• Member, Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 Committee (13 Jun 2019 to 22 Jun 2020)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (19 Jul 2017 to 1 Jul 2019)
• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (10 Jul 2017 to 16 Sep 2021)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (17 Jun 2015 to 27 Apr 2017)
• Member, Constitution Committee (16 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber 30 Apr 2025

  Implementing the LGBT Veterans Financial Recognition Scheme – Lord Lexden. Oral questions

• Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - Commons Reasons: Motion A 1 Apr 2025

  My Lords, I will say a few words about independent schools. Throughout, the Government’s position has been in essence that we have to take away—they say—some of the resources of 7% of our country’s schools to enable 93% to make improvements. State schools will gain little or nothing from Labour’s tax raid, which will simply harm independent schools. Throughout our debates, I have...

• Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill) - Commons Reasons: Motion Q1 (as an amendment to Motion Q) 26 Mar 2025

  Will the Minister confirm clearly that, through this measure, the country will obtain, for the first time ever, a two-tier charitable system? That is what he appeared to accept. This must be thoroughly undesirable. To remove a set of arrangements that independent schools, the vast majority of them very small schools, have enjoyed over centuries and to create two tiers must be a thoroughly...

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