The Lord Bowness CBE DL
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Bowness's full title is The Lord Bowness CBE DL. His name is Peter Spencer Bowness, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2022-04-26
Global Positioning System
My Lords, in a Written Answer in January 2022, the Government stated that they were “considering the findings” of the space-based positioning, navigation and timing programme
“to determine the next steps as part of the business planning process.”
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My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their participation. I am grateful to the Library for its helpful briefing note.
It is important that we are reminded about the OSCE and its functions, for the record. I acknowledge my fellow member of the UK dele
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; and whether they have any proposals to improve that organisation.
2021-03-04
Space Industry
My Lords, I welcome the Minister and look forward to his maiden speech. There are many questions about the £400 million purchase of OneWeb, a bankrupt UK company trading in the US that required a ministerial direction for the purchase to proceed. Have al
2021-02-23
Belarus
My Lords, I welcome the Minister’s support for the OSCE efforts, but in this instance there is a case for dialogue as well as sanctions. Have any Ministers met with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the opposition currently in exile in Lithuania, and
2021-02-03
Music Sector: Working in Europe
This issue is much wider than just musicians, although that is clearly extraordinarily important. I am amazed we were only having discussions with the industry on 20 January, because this issue has been around for a long time. On 20 December, the noble L
2021-01-28
Small Business: EU Exports
My Lords, while it may be less than one month since the transition period ended, for small businesses the situation is urgent and cannot be allowed to continue for many months. Does the Minister agree that the processes and paperwork from 1 January have
I thank the Minister for her introduction of the instrument, and I hope she will forgive me if I look a little wider than provisions for financial difficulties—of which I fear there are many and will be many more if we are not careful—and for changes to
2021-01-08
EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
My Lords, it would be quite possible to use the two minutes to highlight the failure of Parliament to adequately scrutinise the Bill —now an Act—which implemented the agreement we are attempting to scrutinise today. In the period of negotiations, Ministe
I thank my noble friend for his introduction of this instrument, one which was certainly needed for me. To follow all the cross-references proved very difficult, and I shall not pretend that I could do so in every case. In parenthesis, I wonder why this
2020-10-22
Citizens’ Rights (Application Deadline and Temporary Protection) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her introduction and the clarity that she has brought to these issues. That said, I have great sympathy with the views expressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, although, for the reasons given by the noble Lord,
2020-10-19
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill
My Lords, it is a little daunting to follow the learned speech of the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, and the excellent maiden speeches that we have heard this evening. However, Brexit is a phantom that still haunts and divides us, and the major is
2020-10-05
Covid-19: Aviation Sector
My Lords, in a reply to me on 2 July at col. 1283, my noble friend told me that the Government were working very closely with UK-based aviation providers and others to establish international standards for getting our planes back into the air. Precisely
2020-09-25
Belarus: Presidential Elections
I declare my interest as a vice-president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. My noble friend says that the Moscow mechanism has been triggered, but can she indicate whether the experts appointed to investigate matters will be allowed entry into Belarus,
2020-09-23
EU: Future Relationship
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd, who has reminded us in a timely fashion that the whole idea of the European Union is about more than trade and visiting the continent. His words need to be listened to.
I thank the Govern
2020-09-02
EU: Non-financial Services
There are 120 days until 31 December. We know what has not been agreed, because that is in the newspapers, and we know what the Government have chosen not to pursue in the agreement—namely, security and defence—but we do not know what has been raised
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for introducing the Bill, but I regret the context in which it is presented, particularly as it was presented in the other place. Immigration from the European Union has never prevented us permitting the entry of highly
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her presentation and explanation of this measure. However, I question why we are considering it in July 2020 when, according to the policy background in the Explanatory Memorandum, this organisation has been on the r
2020-07-14
Taiwan
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for the answers he has given, which suggest that we are very well disposed towards Taiwan. However, that is only one element. In the UK, we have seen the City of London withdraw its invitation to Taiwan to participate in
2020-07-08
OneWeb
I thank the Minister for his Answer. As I understand it, we are buying a share in a bankrupt British company whose manufacturing and assets base is in the United States under an agreement yet to be approved by a foreign court, i.e. one in New York state.
2020-07-08
OneWeb
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the announcement on 3 July that they will (1) invest $500 million, and (2) take an equity share, in OneWeb, what safeguards are in their agreement with OneWeb to ensure that other shareholders and investors
2020-07-07
Food: Chicken and Beef
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his replies and for acknowledging that it is not only human health which concerns people, but the welfare aspects of the methods of keeping chickens and other animals and rearing beef. Can he again confirm that it will
2020-07-01
China: Supply Chains
I add my congratulations to the Minister. First, the report referred to in my noble friend’s Question mentions the possibility of a free trade zone with the Five Eyes. Have Her Majesty’s Government specifically examined that proposal? Secondly, given the
2020-06-25
Erasmus-plus Programme
I ask my noble friend the Minister to be specific. Where have the negotiations got on this particular point? In March 2019, the then Minister, one Mr Johnson, said that the UK was drawing up alternative plans. What are those alternative plans and what st
2020-06-18
Global Britain
The Statement says that the current crisis
“offers vivid proof of the seminal importance of international engagement and exactly why our country must perform its global role.”
Yet in the other place on Tuesday, in a debate on UK-EU negotiations, my
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Party history
2021-12-01 → present
Crossbench
current
2020-11-24 → 2021-11-30
Non-affiliated
1996-01-17 → 2020-11-23
Conservative
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2001-07-02 → 2002-11-07
Committee on Chinook ZD 576
2008-12-15 → 2012-05-01
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2002-12-02 → 2006-11-08
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2003-12-08 → 2014-05-14
European Union Committee
2007-11-15 → 2008-02-04
Intergovernmental Organisations Committee
2012-05-17 → 2013-05-21
EU Sub Committee E - Justice, Institutions and Consumer Protection
Chair
+£14,582/yr
2014-06-12 → 2017-04-27
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
2015-06-12 → 2016-05-12
EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kosovo
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Uzbekistan
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Czech and Slovak All-Party Parliamentary Group
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Vice-Chairman | — | 5 | 2021-06-12 |
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