no money had been spent on the project. LobbyALord In the run up to the Lords debate in the wake of Lord Dear proposing effectively a deletion amendment, James-J Walsh led on the campaigning activity to engage the House of Lords, he designed the very first platform for being able to digitally engage Peers within the House of Lords. As part of this Walsh recruited Chris Ward, a web developer, to build an online peers lobbying site that enabled ordinary people to connect with often unaccountable Lords and Baronesses. The Site www.LobbyALord.org was receiving traffic resulting at peeks an email being sent to a peer every 8 seconds in the 72 hours before the debate, after endorsements by Grindr a gay mobile dating app, who issued a message to 1 million of its members, and Stephen Fry via his Twitter account. Notable contributions Within the first three weeks after the campaign was launched, videos were uploaded to the Out4Marriage YouTube account from public figures such as Richard Branson, UK pop girl band The Saturdays and human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell. Many Members of Parliament also recorded videos for the campaign, including the then Home Secretary, Theresa May; Former Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone and former cabinet minister, Jack Straw. List of contributions from public figures and personalities Nick Clegg, Former Deputy Prime Minister (2010-2015) and former Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Miliband, Former Leader of the Labour Party (2010-2015) Theresa May, Former Home Secretary and Minister for Women & Equalities, Former Prime Minister (2016-2019) William Bain, Former Shadow Minister for Scotland Tom Blenkinsop, Former Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (2010-2017) Crispin Blunt, Conservative MP for Reigate since 1997 Michael Cashman, Former Labour MEP for West Midlands Yvette Cooper, Former Shadow Home Secretary and Labour MP for Normaton since 2001 Lynne Featherstone Former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Equalities and Former Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green (2005-2015) Stephen Gilbert Former Liberal Democrat MP for St Austell and Newquay (2005-2015) Beverley Knight, Singer Caroline Lucas Former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2010 Fiona MacTaggart, Former Labour MP for Slough (1997-2017) The Saturdays, UK pop group Dan Savage, US Author and creator of the It Gets Better campaign Chris Smith Former Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport Jack Straw Former MP for Blackburn, former cabinet minister Sir Desmond