Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 12 August 2024

Previously MP for Warley until 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

Entered the House of Commons on 28 October 1982 — unknown

Also represented Warley; Warley West; Birmingham, Northfield

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @spellar
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

We don't know whether Lord Spellar campaigned to leave, or stay in the European Union Source: BBC

• Home Department
• Transport
• Home Office
• Department for Transport
• Health
• Members: Correspondence
• Correspondence
• Departmental Expenditure
• Drinking Water
• Afghanistan

Currently held offices

• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (since 6 Jul 2020)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee ( 1 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Member, Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (24 Apr 2024 to 1 May 2024)
• Member, British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (20 Mar 2024 to 17 Apr 2024)
• Member, Firearms Bill Committee ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Member, Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill Committee ( 1 Feb 2023 to 8 Feb 2023)
• Member, Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (18 Jan 2023 to 25 Jan 2023)
• Member, Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill Committee (15 Dec 2021 to 5 Jan 2022)
• Member, Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act (10 Nov 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 5 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee (12 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Defence Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Feb 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Feb 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Committees on Arms Export Controls (10 Feb 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Defence Sub-Committee ( 8 Sep 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Defence Committee ( 6 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Administration Committee (22 Nov 2010 to 1 Jul 2013)
• Shadow Minister (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 18 Sep 2015)
• Member, Committee of Selection (21 Jun 2010 to 13 Oct 2010)
• Member, Finance and Services Committee ( 9 Feb 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Comptroller (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons) ( 5 Oct 2008 to 6 May 2010)
• Member, Conventions (Joint Committee) (17 May 2006 to 31 Oct 2006)
• The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (13 Jun 2003 to 10 May 2005)
• Minister of State (Department for Transport) (29 May 2002 to 13 Jun 2003)
• Minister of State (Department of Transport, Local Government and Regions) (Transport) ( 8 Jun 2001 to 29 May 2002)
• The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (29 Jul 1999 to 8 Jun 2001)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) ( 6 May 1997 to 28 Jul 1999)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Defence) ( 1 Jun 1995 to 1 Jun 1997)
• Shadow Spokesperson (Northern Ireland) ( 1 Jun 1994 to 1 Jun 1995)
• Opposition Whip (Commons) ( 1 Jun 1992 to 1 Jun 1994)
• Member, Energy Committee (21 Jan 1983 to 9 Jun 1983)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Secure 16 to 19 Academies Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Space Industry (Indemnities) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Offenders (Day of Release from Detention) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Firearms Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Registers of Births and Deaths Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Parliamentary Constituencies Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
• Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Superannuation bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Railways and Transport Safety Bill Committee (17 out of 18)
• Travel Concessions (Eligibility) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)

Recent appearances

• Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber 19 May 2025

  Announcement on the awarding of contracts for small modular nuclear reactors – Lord Spellar. Oral questions

• Written Answers — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Nuclear Power: Welding 15 May 2025

  To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 30 April (HL6622), whether any other Department holds the figures of the number of certified nuclear welders in the United Kingdom.

• Autism Employment Review - Question 12 May 2025

  My Lords, I recognise the danger that has been pointed out. If you move from the specific to the general, you often lose focus. But do we not have a broader problem? Millions of our fellow citizens are unemployed or underemployed. Meanwhile, we have a load of artificial barriers in not just the private sector but local and national government departments, about people’s conditions, previous...

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