Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 8503
Fax: 020 7219 1460
faulknerro@parliament.uk
Biography
Electoral history
Contested (Labour) Devizes 1970, February 1974, Monmouth October 1974, Huddersfield West 1979 general elections
Lords career
Departmental Liaison Peer:
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 2000-01,
Cabinet Office 2001-05;
Deputy Chairman of Committees 2007-09, 2010-;
Deputy Speaker 2008-09, 2010-;
Government Whip 2009-10
Councils, public bodies
Councillor, Merton Borough Council 1971-78;
Member, Court of University of Bedfordshire 1999-2009;
ROSPA:
President 2001-04,
Vice-president 2004-;
Chair, Inquiry into Betting on Sport 2004-05
International bodies
Member:
Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK executive committee 2003-05
Political interests
Transport, sport, human rights, smoking and health, sex equality
Countries of interest
Argentina, Caribbean, Denmark, Namibia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Faulkner of Worcester, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton 1999
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
A single payment was received by the Member in October 2011 from PTG Tours Ltd for research work
Employed by Department of Transport, government of New South Wales, in February 2012 for one week’s consultancy relating to the future of railway heritage in the state of NSW
5: Land and property
Residential property in Oxford from which rental income is received
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Taiwan, 2-9 January 2011, as guest of Taiwanese government, with group of parliamentarians from All-Party British-Taiwanese Group; accommodation, subsistence and travel costs were met by government of Taiwan
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Member, First Great Western Trains Advisory Board
President, Heritage Railway Association (a company limited by guarantee)
10: Non-financial interests (c)
Member, Board of Trustees of the National Football Museum
Director, Worcester Live (live music/drama at Swan Theatre and Huntingdon Hall)
Trustee, Foundation for Sport and the Arts
Member, Board of Trustees of National Museum of Science and Industry
10: Non-financial interests (d)
President, Cotswold Line Promotion Group
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Vice President, Football Conference