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• Brexit: Environment and Climate Change - Motion to Take Note 23 Mar 2017

  My Lords, a number of questions have already been posed, and I pity the Minister for having to go through them in some detail. We heard earlier that we in this Chamber tend to be gloomy, and now we should be cheerful. I am neither; I am just puzzled—which is not a new experience. From reading the report, which is a model of clarity, as are most of the Brexit reports that come from the...

• Brexit: Gibraltar - Question for Short Debate 21 Mar 2017

  My Lords, I endorse all that has been said so eloquently. The report is excellent, but for me it raises a number of questions. The main one concerns the fact that throughout the referendum campaign, and subsequently, we have repeatedly heard statements such as, “We will get a good deal”, and, “We will do this and we will do that”, when in fact we do not hold the power...

• Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2017 - Motion to Approve 21 Mar 2017

  My Lords, I hesitate to follow such eloquent speeches on so much detail, but I want to make one or two general points about a more specific area. I do so from an interest that began when I was a Soviet specialist at GCHQ in a previous incarnation, although I realise that that is probably not the right religious phrase to use. It still seems to me that an SDSR should enable us to be flexible...

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Entered the House of Lords on 5 February 2015

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• Has spoken in 16 debates in the last year — above average amongst Lords. See all the Bishop of Leeds’s speeches
• Has received answers to 0 written questions in the last year — average amongst Lords.
• Has voted in 8.41% 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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