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Entered the House of Lords on 6 November 2014

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Currently held offices

• Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (since 1 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) ( 8 Feb 2023 to 4 Jul 2024)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (13 Feb 2020 to 6 Feb 2023)
• Minister of State (Department for Exiting the European Union) (27 Oct 2017 to 12 Feb 2020)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) (14 Jun 2017 to 27 Oct 2017)
• Member, EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee (26 May 2016 to 27 Apr 2017)
• Member, Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee (28 Jan 2016 to 29 Feb 2016)
• Member, Information Committee (Lords) ( 8 Jun 2015 to 31 Aug 2016)

Recent appearances

• Actions of Iranian Regime: UK Response - Commons Urgent Question 8 Jul 2025

  My Lords, we are in agreement with the Government that Iran must never have a nuclear bomb, so will the Minister finally get off the fence and accept that the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear development facilities were absolutely necessary and justified? Iran’s destabilising influence is already prevalent in the UK, as was made clear by the director-general of MI5, who pointed to 20...

• British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty - Commons Urgent Question 3 Jul 2025

  My Lords, watching this UQ in the other place yesterday was a slightly surreal experience. The Lib Dem spokesman said it was a shambolic process—he was obviously correct, although he clearly had not consulted his colleagues in this Chamber, who had voted for it 24 hours earlier. Government is about choices, particularly when there are limited resources, although it seems that Labour...

• British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty - Commons Urgent Question 3 Jul 2025

  There is no binding ruling.

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