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Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 19 July 2018

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Currently held offices

• Member, Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care ( 9 Mar 2020 to 17 Sep 2021)
• Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) (29 Jul 2019 to 8 Mar 2020)
• Member, Communications and Digital Committee (10 Apr 2019 to 29 Jul 2019)

Recent appearances

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Committee (7th Day): Amendment 177 23 Jun 2025

  The Minister is quite right to point out that the Online Safety Act did not get much of a mention: maybe it is some kind of PTSD, because some of us did hard yards during that difficult passage. One of the most difficult things was the debate on age verification for porn, which started with all the same arguments we have just heard: it is not technically possible; maybe children can learn by...

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Committee (7th Day): Amendment 177 23 Jun 2025

  My Lords, I fear that what the noble Lord, Lord Knight, has suggested is indeed happening: private schools, grammar schools and schools in wealthy areas are doubling down on their success by pursuing smartphone bans. Schools in areas of deprivation, where family and community ties are the weakest, are being left behind.

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Committee (7th Day): Amendment 177 23 Jun 2025

  My Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after the noble Baroness, Lady Morris. I think she spoke for many of us on the challenge of edtech: how our hopes that this would be a transformational technology have now changed emphatically, and how we now find ourselves in a place we really did not intend to be. I would like to say a word about Amendment 183CA, from my noble friend Lady Penn, the...

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