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Lord Truscott

Labour Under-Secretary Peer Wikipedia ↗
Born
1959
Newton Abbot
School
Local grammar school, Newton Abbot
State grammar
University
Exeter College
Oxford or Cambridge
In office
0.9 years
Longer than 9% of ministers
OfficeOther workEducation

In government

GB
Appointed by Gordon Brown
1 post · 2007–2007
  • Lord in Waiting
    Whip / Parliamentary 2007/06 – 2007/10
TB
Appointed by Tony Blair
1 post · 2006–2007
  • Minister for Energy
    Under-Secretary 2006/11 – 2007/06

Career

Before Parliament 2

1986–1989
political organiser
Labour Party
Political staff / party / think tank / SpAd
1988–1992
councillor
Colchester Borough Council
Local government (councillor)

After office 10

Undated
consultant
Eastern Petroleum Corporation
Management consultingunverified
Undated
non-executive director
African Minerals
Company management / entrepreneur
Undated
consultant
Gavin Anderson and Company
Management consultingunverified
Undated
consultant
Opus Executive Partners
Management consultingunverified
Undated
consultant
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd
Management consultingunverified
Undated
consultant
Landis & Gyr
Management consulting
Undated
founder/consultant
Energy Enterprises Ltd
Management consultingunverified
Undated
visiting research fellow
Institute for Public Policy Research
Political staff / party / think tank / SpAdunverified
Undated
associate fellow
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Political staff / party / think tank / SpAdunverified
Undated
Parliamentary British Council Ambassador to the Russian Federation
British Council
Civil service & diplomacyunverified

Voting record

477
votes since 2016
0
votes against their own party, 0.0% of 458 whipped votes
0
rebellions as a minister, from 0 votes
19
free votes, with no party line
Share of whipped votes cast against their own party
Lord Truscott0.0%
Typical Labour0.1%
Typical Conservative0.3%
Whipped votes by year
With their partyAgainst
Votes by topic
With their partyAgainst

Commons and Lords votes since 2016. Topics are assigned from division titles by keyword rules.

Bills sponsored

1
government bills put forward as a minister
1
of them became law

Government bills 1

Taken from Parliament's own records of bills. A government bill carries the name of the minister who introduces it, so it says which brief they held, not that they wrote it. Private member's bills are the ones MPs and peers bring forward themselves, and very few become law.