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Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 19 January 2016

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Currently held offices

• Member, Built Environment Committee (since 31 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee (31 Jan 2023 to 23 Nov 2023)
• Member, Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee (15 Oct 2020 to 24 Nov 2021)
• Member, Science and Technology Committee (25 May 2016 to 28 Jan 2021)

Recent appearances

• Higher Education Funding - Motion to Take Note 12 Sep 2024

  My Lords, it is a particular pleasure to follow the excellent maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Tarassenko. As a Cambridge engineer, I speak on behalf of the whole House in extending a very warm welcome to an Oxford engineer. The noble Lord is a distinguished electrical engineer and a world-leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare. His many...

• Housing: Modern Methods of Construction - Motion to Take Note 5 Sep 2024

  My Lords, I declare my interests as a civil engineer, both in practice and as an academic, at Cambridge University, and as a consultant to Laing O’Rourke, the company that pioneered MMC in the construction industry. I am currently a member of the House’s Select Committee on the Built Environment; I was not a member when that committee, chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, undertook its...

• Education for 11 to 16 Year-olds (Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note 26 Jul 2024

  My Lords, it is a privilege to have been a member of the Select Committee undertaking this inquiry, under the expert chairmanship of the noble Lord, Lord Johnson. I will confine my remarks to technical and vocational matters, speaking as an engineer, having been in full-time practice for almost 30 years, and latterly as a professor of engineering at Cambridge University. As well as having a...

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