Is 'poll tax peer' Andrew Dunlop even a Lord yet?

The Scottish Press have gone ballistic over the appointment of Andrew Dunlop to the Scotland Office as Secretary of State for Scotland's David Mundell's assistant. Dunlop was an advisor to Maggie Thatcher and believed to be instrumental in bringing about the dreaded poll tax back in 1989. He also worked as an advisor to David Cameron during the Scottish Independence Referendum.

Worse, where Mundell is an MP, Dunlop is unelected. So David Cameron made him a member of the House of Lords so that he could become Mundell's Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. But is Andrew Dunlop a Lord?

Checking the government website that shows Her Majesty's Government: May 2015, the Scotland Office entry reads thus:

Note it doesn't say Lord Dunlop. Perhaps they're a little behind the times? The House of Lords will be bang up to date, of course. It even helpfully has a New Members section. But there's only been three Lords appointed this year, all before Parliament dissolved for the general election (The Lord Thurlow's real name gives me amusement: Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce.)

According to this guide to How members are appointed to the House of Lords, new members have to be approved by the Queen. It helpfully shows the types of peerages, including

It looks like the Prime Minister doesn't even need MPs - he can just create as many ministerial peerages as he likes to run the government for him. Why does he even bother with backbenchers?

Perhaps it's the time delay in getting a new Lord appointed. The above site points out

Nicola Sturgeon had better meet Andrew Dunlop as many times as possible to firmly establish the protocol that she doesn't curtsy to him before he becomes a Lord and gets all big-headed about it.

Though why anyone would get big-headed at becoming a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is anyone's guess. According to this Wiki page on the subject, it's the lowest of the low in the government minister hierarchy. The page notes that

Having been an under secretary in Macmillan's 1957-1963 Conservative government, the Duke of Devonshire noted:

"No one who hasn't been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State has any conception of how unimportant a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is".

A costly, pointless appointment just to keep the lone Tory in Scotland from feeling quite so lonely as he does. I'm sure Scottish taxpayers will be glad their taxes are being spent on something so worthless.