Profile

Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 13 October 2021

Currently held offices

• Shadow Minister (Energy Security and Net Zero) (since 1 Sep 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (24 Apr 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland ( 4 Oct 2021 to 29 Feb 2024)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber 24 Mar 2025

  Impact of their plans to decarbonise the grid by 2030 on the UK’s energy security – Lord Offord of Garvel. Oral questions

• Scotland: New Nuclear Power Generation - Question 18 Mar 2025

  My Lords, the GMB came out and said that the Scottish economy is losing out to the tune of £1 billion because of the Scottish Government’s ideological indifference to nuclear. Am I right that, last week, the noble and learned Baroness the Advocate-General said that there had been a fundamental reset in the relationship between the UK and Scottish Governments? I ask the Minister if this is...

• North Sea Energy - Statement 12 Mar 2025

  My Lords, this Government have done the exact opposite of building the North Sea’s energy future. Instead, their attitude to our North Sea oil and gas industry, and the hundreds of thousands of people it employs, borders on contempt. For clarification, we should remind ourselves that the 2050 net-zero target, set in Glasgow at COP 26, still required 25% of our energy to come from...

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