Recent appearances

• Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Universal Credit 25 Feb 2019

  To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Social Metrics Commission A new measure for poverty for the UK, published in September 2018, what steps they are taking to ensure working parents with more than two children and who are claiming Universal Credit are not being pushed further into poverty due to the cost of childcare.

• Universal Credit: Free School Meals - Question 21 Feb 2019

  My Lords, the two-child limit means that welfare reforms weigh particularly heavily on families with three or more children. What assessment have the Government made of the consequence of changes to free school meals that are set to impact on children with more than one sibling? Does the Minister agree that this policy will effectively harm children from large families through no fault of...

• Immigration Procedures - Question for Short Debate 14 Feb 2019

  Can the Minister confirm that she will write to me on my question about bishops visiting this country?

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Entered the House of Lords on 3 March 2014

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• Has spoken in 11 debates in the last year — average amongst Lords. See all the Bishop of Durham’s speeches
• Has received answers to 20 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 5.75% 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") 43 times in debates — below average amongst Lords. (Why is this here?)