Lord Selkirk of Douglas

Conservative

MP for Life peer

Top Focus Areas

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsMinistry of DefenceHome OfficeDepartment for Transport

Parliamentary Career

Positions Held

Minister of State (Scotland Office)

Scotland Office

Jan 1995 - Jan 1997

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scottish Office)

Scottish Office

Jun 1987 - Jul 1995

Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip)

HM Treasury

May 1979 - Oct 1981

Constituencies

Edinburgh West

Elected 3 times

Jun 1983 - May 1997

Edinburgh West

Elected 2 times

Oct 1974 - Jun 1983

Registered Interests

No registered interests found.

Recent Votes

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Committee Memberships

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) BillCommons Administration CommitteeCommons Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance CommitteeCommons Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)Lords Autism Act 2009 CommitteeLords Backbench Business CommitteeCommons Bishop's Stortford Cemetery BillCommons Built Environment CommitteeLords Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Commons Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]: Programming sub-committeeCommons Business and Trade CommitteeCommons Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export ControlsCommons City of London (Markets) BillCommons Committee of PrivilegesCommons Committee of SelectionCommons Committee of Selection (Lords)Lords Committee on StandardsCommons Committees on Arms Export ControlsCommons Commons Reference Group on Representation and InclusionCommons Communications and Digital CommitteeLords Conduct CommitteeLords Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)Joint Constitution CommitteeLords Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) BillCommons Court of RefereesCommons Courts (Remote Hearings) BillCommons Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeCommons Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and DisinformationCommons Defence CommitteeCommons Defence Sub-CommitteeCommons

Recent Questions

75 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to support for people living with long-term conditions such as cystic fibrosis, following the publication of the report Your life and CF by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on 6 June, which found

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To: Department of Health and Social Care • 27 Jun 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government when patient organisations such as Cystic Fibrosis Trust, whose Clinical Trials Accelerator Platform informed the design of Clinical Trial Acceleration Networks, will be able to share lessons to feed into the implementation

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To: Department of Health and Social Care • 27 Jun 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of reports that Russian soldiers are castrating Ukrainian prisoners in prisoner of war camps, what assessment they have made of whether Russian soldiers are repeatedly committing crimes against humanity.

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To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 20 Jun 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to whether they would grant permission for Vladimir Putin to enter the UK.

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To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 20 Jun 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to offer to give (1) assistance, and (2) drinkable water, to Turkey and Syria following the earthquake of 6 February.

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To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 13 Jun 2023

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