Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 19 July 2001

Previously MP for Alyn and Deeside until 14 May 2001 — General election

Positions held at time of appointment: Member of Parliament for Alyn and Deeside, 1983-2001 and for Flint East, 1970-83. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales, 1974-79; Opposition spokesman on employment, 1980-83; Opposition spokesman on Wales, 1983-92. (from Number 10 press release)

Entered the House of Commons on 18 June 1970 — General election

Also represented Alyn and Deeside; Flint East; Flintshire East

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Currently held offices

• Member, Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords) (since 22 Feb 2022)
• Member, Committee of Selection (Lords) (since 2 Feb 2022)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (11 Feb 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee ( 8 Jun 2015 to 1 Jul 2019)
• Member, Extradition Law Committee (12 Jun 2014 to 25 Feb 2015)
• Member, Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill [HL] Committee (28 Oct 2013 to 16 Dec 2013)
• Member, Draft Communications Data Bill (Joint Committee) (28 Jun 2012 to 28 Nov 2012)
• Member, Draft Communications Data Bill (Joint Committee) (28 Jun 2012 to 28 Nov 2012)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee C - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy (13 Nov 2007 to 15 May 2012)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee A - Economic and Financial Affairs, and International Trade (26 Nov 2003 to 8 Nov 2006)
• Member, EU Sub-Committee A (13 Nov 2002 to 20 Nov 2003)
• Shadow Secretary of State ( 1 Jul 1988 to 9 Apr 1992)
• Shadow Secretary of State (11 Jun 1983 to 11 Jun 1987)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 3 May 1979 to 15 Nov 1982)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Welsh Office) ( 7 Mar 1974 to 4 May 1979)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Chairman, Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill Committee (3 out of 5)

Recent appearances

• Great British Nuclear: Modular Reactors - Question 2 Dec 2024

  My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister please consider how we might give good news to those sites in north-west Wales, principally the Wylfa plant in Ynys Môn—Anglesey—now dormant, and Trawsfynydd in Meirionnydd, now dormant? The communities around those great plants that generated nuclear power for Britain deserve consideration in so far as, throughout north-west Wales, skilled...

• Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Aerospace Industry: Exports 18 Nov 2024

  To ask His Majesty's Government what was the estimated value of aerospace exports in (1) 2022, (2) 2023, and (3) 2024.

• Written Answers — Department for Business and Trade: Aerospace Industry 18 Nov 2024

  To ask His Majesty's Government how much funding through research and development grants there was for the aerospace industry in (1) 2023–24, and (2) 2024–25.

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