Lord Paul

Swraj Paul

Swraj Paul

Party

Non-Affiliated

Address as

Lord Paul

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5016

Biography

Lords career

Deputy Speaker 2008-10; Deputy Chairman of Committees 2008-10; Suspended from membership October 2010-February 2011

Party groups

Resigned Labour Whip October 2010

Councils, public bodies

Member: London Development Agency 2000-08, London 2012 2003-05; Chairman, Olympic Delivery Committee 2005-08

Political interests

Foreign affairs, economic affairs, education

Countries of interest

Austria, China, Dubai, Germany, India, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, USA

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Paul, of Marylebone in the City of Westminster 1996

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Chairman & Director, Caparo Group Ltd (UK-based industrial manufacturing company with operating subsidiary in Europe)

4: Shareholdings (b)

Core VCT plc

Core VCT IV plc

4: Shareholdings (a)

Together with Paul family members jointly and indirectly interested in the whole of the share capital of a number of businesses in UK and internationally; the shares are held through family trusts and principal businesses are: Caparo Group Limited (manufacturing in UK and Poland); Caparo Holdings (US) Limited (manufacturing in North America); Caparo India Limited (conference and leisure centre in India); Caparo Engineering India Limited (manufacturing in India); Caparo Middle East (industrial products sales, warehousing and distribution in Middle East)

5: Land and property

Three apartments in Coppet, Switzerland, from which rental income is received when tenanted

Farmland, Buckinghamshire, from which rental income is received

Two cottages, Buckinghamshire, from which rental income is received when tenanted

Apartment, London

10: Non-financial interests (a)

Chair, PiggyBankKids Projects Ltd (charity)

10: Non-financial interests (b)

Chancellor, University of Wolverhampton

Chancellor, University of Westminster

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Chair of Trustees, Ambika Paul Foundation (charity)