Lord Whitty

Labour Peer

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Recent appearances

  • Housing: Accessibility Standards - Question 5 Feb 2024

    My Lords, is this not just one aspect of the Government’s failure to enforce the standards to which they are theoretically committed, whether environmental, accessibility or others? Are they trying to trade off the standards against numbers because of their pathetic failure to meet the 300,000 homes a year ambition, which was stated time and again?
  • Industrial Strategy - Motion to Take Note 1 Feb 2024

    My Lords, I offer congratulations to my noble friend Lord Watson on securing this debate, and a warm welcome to the noble Lord, Lord Rosenfield—I appreciated his speech. Arguably, the biggest failure of the British economy over several decades now has been that we face a falling share of global investment in industry in its widest sense, including the service and digital industries. That...
  • Children’s Care Homes: Private Equity - Question 30 Jan 2024

    My Lords, I think it was only two Prime Ministers ago who promised before the last general election that they would fix social care. The problems that we have talked about today apply to the whole of the social care sector. In effect, those who pay for care—whether for elderly parents or local authorities for children and others, who are very vulnerable people—are subsidising private...

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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords in 1996

Currently held offices

  • Member, Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee (since 24 Jan 2024)

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Environment and Climate Change Committee (14 Apr 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
  • Member, Procedure and Privileges Committee (17 Sep 2020 to 4 Feb 2021)
  • Member, Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee (13 Jun 2019 to 23 Jun 2020)
  • Member, Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee (28 Jan 2016 to 29 Feb 2016)
  • Chair, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (23 Jun 2015 to 2 Jul 2019)
  • Chair, EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (23 Jun 2015 to 2 Jul 2019)
  • Member, European Union Committee ( 8 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2019)
  • Member, EU Sub Committee D - Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment and Energy (17 May 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
  • Member, EU Sub-Committee G - Social Policies and Consumer Protection (22 Jun 2010 to 16 May 2012)
  • Member, EU Sub-Committee B - Internal Market ( 8 Oct 2007 to 8 Apr 2010)
  • Member, Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee) (23 Apr 2007 to 3 Aug 2007)
  • Member, Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I ( 6 Jun 2005 to 8 Nov 2006)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Food, Farming and Sustainable Energy) (13 Jun 2003 to 10 May 2005)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (12 Jun 2001 to 13 Jun 2003)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (11 Jun 2001 to 11 May 2005)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) (31 Jul 1998 to 11 Jun 2001)
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (28 Jul 1998 to 11 Jun 2001)
  • Government Whip ( 7 May 1997 to 28 Jul 1998)

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