Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 24 January 2025

Previously MP for Cardiff West until 30 May 2024 — Dissolved for election

Entered the House of Commons on 7 June 2001 — General election

Also represented Cardiff West

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page
• BBC News profile

Social Media

• @KevinBrennanMP
• https://facebook.com/kevinbrennanpage

Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009
• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Lord Brennan of Canton campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Education
• Department for Digital
• Culture
• Media and Sport
• Department for Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Department for Education
• Department for Culture
• Media and Sport
• Academies
• Teachers: Training
• Green Investment Bank: Privatisation
• Free Schools
• Kings Science Academy

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee ( 1 May 2024 to 8 May 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Victims and Sentencing) ( 7 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] Committee (14 Jun 2023 to 19 Jun 2023)
• Member, Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] Second Reading Committee ( 7 Jun 2023 to 12 Jun 2023)
• Member, Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill Committee (25 Jan 2023 to 1 Feb 2023)
• Member, Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill Committee ( 7 Dec 2022 to 14 Dec 2022)
• Member, Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee ( 9 Mar 2022 to 22 Mar 2022)
• Member, Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill Committee ( 2 Feb 2022 to 9 Feb 2022)
• Member, Welsh Grand Committee (18 Jan 2022 to 30 May 2024)
• Member, Cultural Objects (Protection From Seizure) Bill Committee ( 9 Nov 2021 to 17 Nov 2021)
• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and Disinformation (10 Mar 2020 to 15 Jan 2024)
• Member, Culture, Media and Sport Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 15 Jan 2024)
• Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Arts and Heritage) ( 3 Jul 2017 to 10 Apr 2020)
• Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport) (Arts and Heritage) ( 9 Oct 2016 to 3 Jul 2017)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) (18 Sep 2015 to 9 Oct 2016)
• Shadow Minister (Education) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 18 Sep 2015)
• Member, Public Administration Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 17 Jan 2011)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) (12 May 2010 to 8 Oct 2010)
• Minister of State (Department for Children, Schools and Families) (also Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) ( 9 Jun 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) (Further Education, Skills, Apprenticeships and Consumer Affairs) (also Department for Children, Schools and Families) ( 9 Jun 2009 to 6 May 2010)
• Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office) (Third Sector) ( 5 Oct 2008 to 9 Jun 2009)
• Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Children, Schools and Families) (Children, Young People and Families) (29 Jun 2007 to 5 Oct 2008)
• The Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury ( 5 May 2006 to 28 Jun 2007)
• Assistant Whip (HM Treasury) (10 May 2005 to 5 May 2006)
• PPS (Rt Hon Alan Milburn, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), Cabinet Office ( 2 Nov 2004 to 11 Apr 2005)
• Member, Public Administration Committee (16 Jul 2001 to 19 Jan 2005)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Electronic Trade Documents Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Cultural Objects (Protection from Seizure) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
• British Library Board (Power to Borrow) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Parking (Code of Practice) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) (Amendment) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Digital Economy Bill Committee (10 out of 11)
• Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Education and Adoption Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
• Enterprise Bill Committee (8 out of 16)
• Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law Of Succession) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Education Bill Committee (22 out of 22)
• Live Music Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Children and Young Persons Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Statistics and Registration Service Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Planning-gain Supplement (Preparations) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Finance Bill Committee (14 out of 14)
• Violent Crime Reduction Bill Committee (7 out of 7)
• Electoral Administration Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Transport (Wales) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Criminal Defence Service Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pensions Bill Committee (17 out of 22)
• Health Protection Agency Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Water Bill Committee (8 out of 11)
• State Pension Credit Bill Committee (6 out of 8)
• Finance Bill Committee (9 out of 16)
• Adoption and Children Bill Committee (21 out of 23)

Recent appearances

• Public Sector: Working From Home - Question 20 Mar 2025

  My Lords, flexible working can give great benefits to both employees and employers, in the public sector in particular, but will my noble friend consider the importance of making sure that there are times when people do attend work in person where they can, not least to build teamwork and camaraderie, particularly for younger workers who at the beginning of their careers need to benefit from...

• Overseas Companies: UK-registered Subsidiaries - Question 17 Mar 2025

  My Lords, is the issue of companies domiciled overseas which have set up a UK-registered subsidiary likely to feature in the upcoming potential trade talks with the United States of America? If so, what will the UK Government’s position be?

• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 5 3 Mar 2025

  I observe briefly to the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, that he is partial in his recollection of the career of the great Raymond Baxter. The other programme that he was famous for was called, “Tomorrow’s World”. I was an avid watcher of that programme as a young boy, and I never remember a prediction on “Tomorrow’s World” that, 50 years later, people would still be sitting in...

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