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Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords are peers who do not belong to any parliamentary group in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. They do not take a political party 's whip , nor affiliate to the crossbench group, nor are they Lords Spiritual (active Church of England bishops).
Former Lord Speaker, former chairman of the House of Lords Communications Select Committee and former MP Lord Fox: 11 September 2014 Liberal Democrat Life peer PR director at GKN engineering and former Liberal Democrat chief executive Baroness Fox of Buckley: 14 September 2020 Non-affiliated Life peer Former MEP for North West England (2019–2020)
Best is a member of the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee, and has previously chaired the House of Lords Audit Committee between 2005 and 2010 and the Select Committee on Communications between 2014 and 2017. Lord Best has previously sat on the Built Environment Committee, EU Home Affairs Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee.
John Zak Woodcock, Baron Walney [2] (born 14 October 1978) [3] is a British politician and life peer who formerly acted as the Conservative government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption and is currently in position under the Labour government. [4]
Dennis Robert David Rogan, Baron Rogan (born 30 June 1942), is a Northern Irish unionist politician and businessman, serving as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since 2018, and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in the House of Lords since 2009.
In the United Kingdom's 2024 general election, 650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. [1] The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. [2] The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024. [3]
This is a list of members of the United Kingdom House of Lords who have represented, or have personal or family links with the Ulster Unionist Party.. This list does not include hereditary peers whose only parliamentary service was in the House of Lords prior to the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, and who lost their seats under that Act. [1]
Nominated by the House of Lords Appointments Commission as a non-party political "People's Peer", [18] on 30 October 2015, he was created Baron Bird, of Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , sitting as a crossbencher in the Upper House. [19] In his maiden speech Lord Bird stated: