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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 28 May 2015

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Currently held offices

• Member, Communications and Digital Committee (since 31 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Constitution Committee (27 Jun 2017 to 19 Jan 2022)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Northern Ireland Office) (17 Jul 2016 to 14 Jun 2017)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (14 May 2015 to 14 Jun 2017)

Recent appearances

• Media Bill - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 16 20 May 2024

  My Lords, I rise briefly to support Amendments 16 and 17, introduced persuasively by my noble friend Lady Fraser of Craigmaddie, and, not least, to add another Scots voice to the many Welsh voices that we have heard already. The independent production sector has naturally been concerned about the implications for Channel 4’s commissioning role of the removal of the existing...

• Media Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 4 8 May 2024

  My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 6 and 10 in my name and the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Bull, the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness. I am very grateful to those noble Lords for their cross-party support. These amendments are designed to address an urgent problem. They seek to provide more explicit protection for...

• Media Bill - Second Reading: Amendment to the Motion 28 Feb 2024

  My Lords, I join in the refrain and say that I, too, welcome the Bill and share in the widespread cross-party support for it. As we have heard, it has been a long time in gestation and has benefited from pre-legislative scrutiny. There is now a strong desire across the UK broadcasting industry to see the Bill progress swiftly through Parliament. As we have heard, it is over 20 years since the...

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