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Entered the House of Lords on 26 June 2012

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Currently held offices

• Member, National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) (since 30 Jan 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Conduct Committee ( 7 May 2024 to 30 Jan 2025)
• 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, Communications and Digital Committee ( 8 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2019)

Recent appearances

• Artificial Intelligence: News Media - Question 7 Jul 2025

  My Lords, during the passage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill, the Government asked repeatedly that Parliament trust that they had the interest of UK copyright holders front and centre. So can the Minister explain why the UK Government have now signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian AI firm Cohere, when Cohere is facing legal action from 13 news media copyright holders,...

• AI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note 13 Jun 2025

  My Lords, I add my welcome to the noble Lord, Lord Massey. I also look forward to hearing from the noble Lord, Lord Evans. I thank the committee for its very valuable report, and for the determination of the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, and her colleagues, not to split the interests of the creative, creative tech and AI communities but to try and see them as a unified whole. I really...

• Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Commons Amendments: Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) 11 Jun 2025

  Perhaps the Minister could note that I said that of course they should be meeting. It was the fact that the creative industries did not get a response that was at issue here.

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