Profile

Conservative Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 9 November 2022

Previously MP for Weaver Vale until 3 May 2017 — Dissolved for election

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Also represented Weaver Vale

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @GrahamEvans
• https://facebook.com/grahamevans

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Lord Evans of Rainow campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Home Department
• Energy and Climate Change
• Treasury
• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Health
• Departmental Training
• Departmental Security
• Members: Correspondence
• Departmental Marketing
• Departmental Official Hospitality

Currently held offices

• Member, Social Mobility Policy Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)

Other offices held in the past

• Opposition Whip (Lords) ( 1 Sep 2024 to 10 Nov 2024)
• Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) ( 1 Jan 2023 to 5 Jul 2024)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (29 Oct 2012 to 30 Mar 2015)
• Member, Administration Committee (14 Nov 2011 to 25 Mar 2013)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Mutuals' Deferred Shares Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
• Public Service Pensions Bill Committee (9 out of 9)
• Financial Services (Banking Reform)Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• Justice and Security Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
• Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill Committee (15 out of 17)
• Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill Committee (6 out of 6)

Recent appearances

• Football Governance Bill [HL] - Report (1st Day) (Continued): Amendment 17 11 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I would like to ask the Minister on that point about engagement with fans. As I alluded to before the dinner break, sometimes those fans are in the tens of thousands. Can she share with us how the regulator will engage with those fans? If the regulator will refer to fan representatives, who would those representatives be on a case-by-case basis or club-by-club basis?

• Football Governance Bill [HL] - Report (1st Day): Amendment 12 11 Mar 2025

  My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of my noble friend Lord Ranger of Northwood, as well as my noble friend Lord Maude’s earlier point about the individual who will become the regulator. While we are discussing Manchester United, I note that I am a season ticket holder of the club; my noble friend Lord Ranger made a point about the recent increase in ticket prices. This regulator will...

• Theft of Mobile Telephones - Question 4 Mar 2025

  My Lords, a few Saturdays ago I took Lady Evans to theatreland. Between Shaftesbury Avenue and Leicester Square, she had her mobile phone stolen. We very quickly saw that she did not have her phone and managed to track it on an app called Find My iPhone. I tracked Lady Evans’s phone as it disappeared down Whitehall, through the Embankment, over Westminster Bridge and ended up at a premises...

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