Recent appearances

• Creative and Cultural Industries: Impact of Visa and Immigration Policies - Question 25 Jul 2023

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• Veterans Update - Statement 20 Jul 2023

  My Lords, I first became involved in this issue in 1991 when, along with Robert Ely and Elaine Chambers, the founders of Rank Outsiders, I gave evidence to the Armed Forces Select Committee to lift the ban. The ban was duly and rightly lifted by the courage of Duncan Lustig-Prean, Jeanette Smith, John Beckett and Graeme Grady, who with Stonewall took the case through the courts to the...

• Independent Review: Armed Forces Homosexuality Ban - Question 19 Jul 2023

  My Lords, I too commend this report and congratulate the noble and learned Lord on what, as the Minister has said, is a deeply harrowing yet forensic report. I think it will put right the wrongs that have been done to LGBT service personnel across the generations. I pay tribute to Elaine Chambers and Robert Ely, who set up Rank Outsiders in the early 1990s, which campaigned to end the ban on...

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Entered the House of Lords on 28 October 2014

Party was Labour until 22 May 2019

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Other offices held in the past

• Member, Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee (17 May 2018 to 12 Jun 2018)
• Member, EU Justice Sub-Committee (27 Jun 2017 to 16 Jul 2019)