Affiliation
House: Lords
Constituency: Life peer
Status: Current member
Labour (Life Peer)
Affiliation
House: Lords
Constituency: Life peer
Status: Current member
Latest Activity
Sitting day: 2026-03-10
Activity total: 9
Contributions: 9
Votes recorded: 0
Current Offices
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Recent Votes
Recent recorded divisions
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Lords - 2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Lords - 2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Lords - 2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Lords - 2026-03-26T00:00:00+00:00
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Lords - 2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Lords - 2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
Crime and Policing Bill
Lords - 2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Lords - 2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
Recent Participation
Recent speeches in the feed
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, I express my thanks to Claire Waxman, the Victims’ Commissioner, and to Tracey Hanson and Katie Brett, who have campaigned with great commitment on behalf of victims. In…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, Amendment 21 in the names of my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti and a formidable trio of other Members of your Lordships’ House, the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot, the noble…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, I begin with Clause 12. There are two points that I want to make at the outset: the Government’s motivation for introducing this provision is not to save money, and we d…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, I begin with Amendments 9 and 15 in the names of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, and the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, which seek to extend the eligibility for the…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10I will certainly take that away and write to the noble Lord. A number of things are in issue here. For example, I do not know how many appeals across the board are successful. It…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, Amendment 8, in the names of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, and the noble Lords, Lord Murray and Lord Marks, has been spoken to most persuasively, as ever, by…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, Amendment 6, in the names of my noble friend Lord Hacking and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, would require the Government to implement independent modern slavery victim…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, and the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, for their constructive engagement on the subject of…
Victims and Courts Bill
2026-03-10My Lords, the Government appreciate that this group of amendments is driven by a desire to safeguard the children who are, quite rightly, at the centre of these difficult and sens…