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• Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Bill - Report 1 Mar 2019

  I thank the noble Lord for the question and the invitation to respond. During the time of my ministry, the Church of England has grappled with two other issues: the remarriage of divorcees and the admission of women to different orders of Christian ministry. In both cases, it has taken the Church in its processes a very long time to come to judicious conclusions. That is the way we are. Our...

• Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Bill - Report 1 Mar 2019

  My Lords, those were extremely moving speeches. I thank the noble Lords, Lord Faulkner, Lord Collins and Lord Cashman, and the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, for the contributions they have made in the Chamber today and the moving way in which they have spoken. I thank them for sharing their personal experiences so movingly, and for the important and necessary articulation of the views they...

• Further Discussions with the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union - Motion to Take Note 27 Feb 2019

  My Lords, I always rise to speak in this Chamber with some fear and trepidation but never more so than today: not only because of the expertise, passion and conviction in this Chamber but also the jeopardy in which we find ourselves as a nation and a Parliament. My journey through the Brexit process is that for seven years until the referendum year, I was the bishop in Sheffield and south...

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Entered the House of Lords on 14 October 2013

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Artificial Intelligence Committee (29 Jun 2017 to 13 Mar 2018)

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• Has spoken in 12 debates in the last year — above average amongst Lords. See all the Bishop of Oxford’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 4.84% of votes in this House with this affiliation up to the 2015 general election — well below average amongst Lords. (From Public Whip)
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 17 times in debates — below average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)