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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 28 October 2013

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Restoration and Renewal Programme Board Committee (22 Feb 2023 to 21 Nov 2024)
• Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (19 Jan 2022 to 30 Jan 2025)
• Member, Constitution Committee ( 4 Mar 2020 to 31 Jan 2023)
• Member, SLSC Sub-Committee B ( 4 Sep 2018 to 30 Apr 2019)
• Member, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (27 Jun 2017 to 19 Jan 2022)
• Member, Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee (28 Jan 2016 to 29 Feb 2016)
• Member, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) (17 Jun 2015 to 27 Apr 2017)
• Member, Insurance Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee (11 Dec 2014 to 24 Dec 2014)
• Member, Communications and Digital Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 27 Apr 2017)

Recent appearances

• House of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL] - Second Reading 14 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Mattinson, on her most accomplished speech this morning. We are old friends and colleagues from another place, and although we have different political views, I look forward very much to hearing more from her in the period to come. I also thank my noble friend Lord Norton for the way in which he introduced this Bill, although I am...

• United Kingdom: Global Position - Motion to Take Note 13 Mar 2025

  My Lords, in an episode of “The Simpsons”, Homer Simpson says of the Economist magazine, “I don’t need to spend $4 a week to be told that Indonesia’s at the crossroads”. Today, we in the West really are at the crossroads, as my noble friend Lord Howard of Lympne and many others have said. The international chessboard has been thrown up and we still do not know where the pieces...

• Autumn Budget 2024 - Motion to Take Note 11 Nov 2024

  My Lords, Ministers, in trying to defend the Budget, keep saying in a rather pained way that they have had to take some very difficult decisions; the Minister said that today. Of course, that is what government is all about, and they should not be surprised by that. However, I do accept that the Chancellor had a particular challenge which all Chancellors face when presenting their Budgets:...

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