Information between 15th January 2026 - 14th February 2026
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Thursday 12th February 2026 Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Short debate - Grand Committee Subject: Economic impact of the UK flour milling sector View calendar - Add to calendar |
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19 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 156 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 235 Noes - 164 |
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19 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 149 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 159 Noes - 153 |
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19 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 151 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 148 Noes - 156 |
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21 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 140 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 207 Noes - 159 |
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21 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House One of 3 Labour Aye votes vs 134 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 261 Noes - 150 |
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28 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 156 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 255 Noes - 183 |
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28 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 140 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 231 Noes - 147 |
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28 Jan 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 151 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 67 Noes - 191 |
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3 Feb 2026 - Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 166 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 295 Noes - 180 |
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4 Feb 2026 - Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 165 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 62 Noes - 295 |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Flour Milling Sector
Lord Rooker contributed 2 speeches (1,457 words) Thursday 12th February 2026 - Grand Committee |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: US Department of Justice Release of Files
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (88 words) Thursday 5th February 2026 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Single-Sex Spaces: EHRC Guidance
Lord Rooker contributed 2 speeches (69 words) Monday 2nd February 2026 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (147 words) Committee stage Friday 30th January 2026 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (145 words) Committee stage Friday 23rd January 2026 - Lords Chamber |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Great Western Railway: Infrastructure
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (62 words) Wednesday 21st January 2026 - Lords Chamber Department for Transport |
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Agriculture: Databases
Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Tuesday 3rd February 2026 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to make publicly funded data accumulated by Agrimetrics available; and whether access to that data will be cost-free. Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) Between 2016 and 2024, Agrimetrics Ltd. received £27 million public funding through Innovate UK. Agrimetrics Ltd. was not set up to generate or make data publicly available but used the funding to create a data platform that allowed businesses to host, integrate and analyse agri-food data. The data on the platform was provided by a variety of different public and private sector organisations, who retained ownership, rather than Agrimetrics Ltd. This approach maximised the engagement of private sector data owners. Of the data sources used, some were already freely available, and some for a fee. We are unable to comment on what data will continue to be available as Agrimetrics Ltd. was an independent organisation and the government does not have access to the data it hosted. The infrastructure provided value to business in the Agrifood sector over the years it was funded, however due to the speed of technological changes in this sector funding the platform no longer represented value for money. Innovate UK ceased providing Agrimetrics with core funding on 31 March 2024. |
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Agriculture: Databases
Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Tuesday 3rd February 2026 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask His Majesty's Government what the level of public investment was in Agrimetrics from 2015 until it ceased operations. Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) Between 2016 and 2024, Agrimetrics Ltd. received £27 million public funding through Innovate UK. Agrimetrics Ltd. was not set up to generate or make data publicly available but used the funding to create a data platform that allowed businesses to host, integrate and analyse agri-food data. The data on the platform was provided by a variety of different public and private sector organisations, who retained ownership, rather than Agrimetrics Ltd. This approach maximised the engagement of private sector data owners. Of the data sources used, some were already freely available, and some for a fee. We are unable to comment on what data will continue to be available as Agrimetrics Ltd. was an independent organisation and the government does not have access to the data it hosted. The infrastructure provided value to business in the Agrifood sector over the years it was funded, however due to the speed of technological changes in this sector funding the platform no longer represented value for money. Innovate UK ceased providing Agrimetrics with core funding on 31 March 2024. |
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19 Jan 2026, 3:16 p.m. - House of Lords " My Lords, will. >> The government undertake to work with our Lord Rooker the organisation? Because a problem very often for children with skin " Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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23 Jan 2026, 12:21 p.m. - House of Lords " I'm wholly in agreement with Lord Rooker and indeed Lord Deben that greater clarity, both from the that greater clarity, both from the promoter of the Bill and from the frontbench, would assist the House in making sure that its mind can be " Lord Gove (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 2:53 p.m. - House of Lords "humbly suggest accepting the points exactly as Lord Rooker said, accepting what the committee said " Lord Rooker (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 2:55 p.m. - House of Lords "say I finish by saying I agree with Lord Rooker. The extent to which we can now make progress is going to " Lord Harper (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 2:58 p.m. - House of Lords "the priorities we are attaching, can we triage them in some way? Because I think Lord Rooker is " Baroness Andrews (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 3:09 p.m. - House of Lords " Here I'm another member who had not intended to say a single word on clause stand part. I'm rather on clause stand part. I'm rather relaxed about it, but the government whips must blame their their noble friend Lord Rooker, who " Lord Blencathra (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 3:09 p.m. - House of Lords "their noble friend Lord Rooker, who provoked me into commenting because I agree once again with every single wise word he said. Now he " Lord Blencathra (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 3:12 p.m. - House of Lords "thinking about it. The noble Lord Lord Rooker, I think, is somebody who I have the greatest respect for having been in government, not as " Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 3:12 p.m. - House of Lords "what my noble friend Lord Rooker said? And I do not say this without " Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 3:13 p.m. - House of Lords "accept what the noble Lord Lord Rooker is saying. My responsibility for trying to bring forward as " Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 2:52 p.m. - House of Lords "noble Lord Lord Rooker about the Delegated Powers Committee's recommendations. They had. They " Lord Rooker (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Jan 2026, 2:51 p.m. - House of Lords "anything, but I was provoked. Provoked in a nice way by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, just on his advice, which was well meant, I " Lord Rooker (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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2 Feb 2026, 3:48 p.m. - House of Lords "admirer of my noble friend Lord Rooker, working with him on the Secondary Legislation Committee. He " Baroness Donaghy (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Flour Milling Sector
13 speeches (6,092 words) Thursday 12th February 2026 - Grand Committee Mentions: 1: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for tabling this Question for Short Debate. - Link to Speech 2: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) I thank my noble friend Lord Rooker for securing it, as well as the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, and the - Link to Speech |
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Single-Sex Spaces: EHRC Guidance
23 speeches (1,339 words) Monday 2nd February 2026 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I am a great admirer of my noble friend Lord Rooker. - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
189 speeches (44,534 words) Committee stage Friday 30th January 2026 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) Exactly as the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, said, I humbly suggest accepting what the committee said and - Link to Speech 2: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) I finish by saying that I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Andrews (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I think it is right, as my noble friend Lord Rooker said, that this clause stand part debate - Link to Speech 4: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) The Government Whips must blame their noble friend Lord Rooker, who provoked me into commenting because - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
311 speeches (52,735 words) Committee stage Friday 23rd January 2026 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Gove (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I am wholly in agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, and my noble friend Lord Deben, - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 10th February 2026
Declarations of interest - Declarations of interest - February 2026 Environment and Climate Change Committee Found: series entitled Bricks and Water with Rob Allen from Westminster Policy Forum/ Policy Connect Lord Rooker |
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Wednesday 4th February 2026
Oral Evidence - Environment Agency, and Ofwat Drought Preparedness - Environment and Climate Change Committee Found: Ewelme; Lord Krebs; Earl of Leicester; Lord Lennie; Lord Mancroft; Baroness McIntosh of Pickering; Lord Rooker |
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Wednesday 21st January 2026
Oral Evidence - Yorkshire Water, Anglian Water, and Severn Trent Drought Preparedness - Environment and Climate Change Committee Found: Springbank; Lord Jay of Ewelme; Lord Krebs; Lord Layard; Earl of Leicester; Lord Lennie; Lord Mancroft; Lord Rooker |
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Wednesday 14th January 2026
Oral Evidence - North Yorkshire Council, Surrey County Council, and Canal and River Trust Drought Preparedness - Environment and Climate Change Committee Found: Lord Jay of Ewelme; Lord Krebs; Lord Layard; The Earl of Leicester; Lord Lennie; Lord Mancroft; Lord Rooker |
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Wednesday 14th January 2026
Oral Evidence - Tech UK, NTT Data Centres, and Veolia UK Drought Preparedness - Environment and Climate Change Committee Found: Lord Jay of Ewelme; Lord Krebs; Lord Layard; The Earl of Leicester; Lord Lennie; Lord Mancroft; Lord Rooker |
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Wednesday 28th January 2026 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Office for Environmental Protection At 10:00am: Oral evidence Dame Glenys Stacey - Chair at Office for Environmental Protection Natalie Prosser - Chief Executive Officer at Office for Environmental Protection Professor Robbie McDonald - Chief Scientist at Office for Environmental Protection View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 4th February 2026 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Drought Preparedness View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 11th February 2026 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Drought Preparedness At 10:00am: Oral evidence Emma Hardy MP - Minister for Water and Flooding at Defra Martin Woolhead - Deputy Director of Water Infrastructure Delivery at Defra View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 9:30 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 4th March 2026 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |