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• Voted for more EU integration Show votes 1 vote for, 0 votes against, 5 absences, in 2011.

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Recent appearances

• Higher Education: Financial Pressures - Motion to Take Note 30 Mar 2023

  My Lords, I intend to talk about the internal consequences for universities of their financial crises. The number of universities running financial deficits has increased in recent years. The proportion of providers with a yearly deficit has increased from 5% in 2015-16 to 32% in 2019-20; the figures for the subsequent academic years will undoubtedly be far worse. The deficits can be...

• Leasehold Reform - Question 23 Mar 2023

  My Lords, the Minister will be aware that freeholders have been empowered to impose the costs of any litigation that has been initiated by an aggrieved leaseholder upon that leaseholder. When will that extraordinary anomaly in British law be corrected?

• Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee - Membership Motion: Amendment to the Motion 31 Jan 2023

  My Lords, I will interpolate a few comments in support of the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson. This amendment is not, as some are still supposing, a plea to prolong the tenure of some of the existing members of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Rather, it is an attempt to draw attention to the dysfunctional aspects of the existing arrangements affecting Standing...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 30 March 2011

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Currently held offices

• Member, Science and Technology Committee (Lords) (since 28 Jan 2021)
• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) (since 19 Jul 2017)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (4 Jul 2019 to 31 Jan 2023)
• Member, Finance Bill Sub-Committee (9 Oct 2018 to 4 Nov 2019)
• Member, Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee (13 Sep 2016 to 9 Nov 2016)
• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) (17 Jun 2015 to 27 Apr 2017)
• Member, EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee (12 Jun 2015 to 2 Jul 2019)
• Member, The Arctic Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 11 Feb 2015)
• Member, Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill [HL] Committee (28 Oct 2013 to 16 Dec 2013)
• Member, Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee) (4 Jul 2013 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Bill Special Public Bill Committee (22 Jan 2013 to 13 Feb 2013)
• Member, Trusts (Capital and Income) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee (19 Jun 2012 to 24 Jul 2012)