Lord Griffiths of Burry Port

Labour Peer

Profile

Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 21 July 2004

Positions held at time of appointment: Superintendent Minister, Wesley's Chapel, London. (from Number 10 press release)

Currently held offices

  • Member, Constitution Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)
  • Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (since 31 Oct 2024)

Other offices held in the past

  • Member, Communications and Digital Committee (28 Jan 2021 to 31 Jan 2024)
  • Shadow Spokesperson (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (14 Sep 2017 to 14 May 2020)
  • Shadow Spokesperson (Wales) (14 Sep 2017 to 14 May 2020)
  • Opposition Whip (Lords) (21 Jun 2017 to 14 May 2020)
  • Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) ( 9 Jul 2015 to 3 May 2017)
  • Member, Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) (27 Jul 2010 to 30 Mar 2015)

Recent appearances

  • Asylum Support (Prescribed Period) Bill [HL] - Second Reading 13 Dec 2024

    My Lords, it is with a readiness to admit that the substantive points that I might have wanted to make have been made that I begin to share my thoughts today. I began the week in the company of the noble Lord, Lord German, in Paris at the migration committee of the Council of Europe. We rather missed the presence of the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, who has just stepped down from...
  • Social Cohesion and Community during Periods of Change - Motion to Take Note 6 Dec 2024

    My Lords, I do not know what the odds would be for someone being asked to speak immediately after an Archbishop on two successive days, but here am I, with a mood change from yesterday to today. Yesterday was perhaps elegiac and today might even risk being euphoric—we will have to see about that. I am delighted to have the opportunity to be here and to contribute to this important debate,...
  • Housing Supply and Homelessness - Motion to Take Note 5 Dec 2024

    My Lords, it is a real privilege to have the opportunity to follow the most reverend Primate. We first met in Durham cathedral. It was a great civic occasion, where I was the appointed preacher and he was the recently arrived—merely, at that time—right reverend Prelate. I preached at him and he blessed me, and it has been like that ever since. A month or two later, in May 2012, the most...

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