Simon Peter Burton is a British public servant and the current

Clerk of the Parliaments The Clerk of the Parliaments is the chief Clerk (legislature), clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The position has existed since at least 1315, and duties include preparing the minutes of Lords proceedings, advi ...

, the chief clerk in the

House of Lords The House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers, is the Bicameralism, upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Membership is by Life peer, appointment, Hereditary peer, heredity or Lords Spiritual, official function. Like the ...

. Burton was appointed as Clerk of the Parliaments with the effect from 2 April 2021 for a term of five years. He served earlier as Clerk Assistant and, before that, as Reading Clerk in the House of Lords.

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