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Former Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 13 February 2013

Left the House of Lords on 17 December 2021

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Science and Technology Committee ( 1 Jul 2019 to 2 Mar 2021)
• Member, Artificial Intelligence Committee (29 Jun 2017 to 13 Mar 2018)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 27 Apr 2017)

Recent appearances

• Covid-19: National Memorial - Question 8 Dec 2021

  My Lords, does my noble friend agree that we owe it to the dead, as a memorial, to find out how this pandemic began? I declare an interest in having co-authored a book on the topic.

• Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL] - Report (Continued): Amendment 23 6 Dec 2021

  My Lords, I shall just comment very briefly on what my noble friend has just said. I disagreed with him on one point, when he said that there were no leading lights in the science of sentience. I draw his attention to a wonderful book published by Oxford University Press just a few months ago by the great Cambridge psychologist Nick Humphrey. Nick says, after 60,000 words of argument, as he...

• Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL] - Report (Continued): Amendment 9 6 Dec 2021

  My Lords, I am obviously a little disappointed that my brilliant suggestion about the Cabinet Office committee has not fallen on more fertile ground. To use an analogy, you would keep a sheep dog in a kennel rather than with the sheep, but I will not pursue that one. I thank noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate and beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 9 withdrawn....

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