THE LORD FAULKNER OF WORCESTER
(Life Baron; cr.1999)

Full Name: Richard Oliver Faulkner
Date of Birth: 22 March 1946
Nationality: British
Marital Status: Married Susan Heyes 1968 (2 daughters, 6 grandchildren)

EDUCATION
 Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood (1959-64  -  Baker Exhibitioner in Classics)
 Worcester College, Oxford (MA philosophy, politics, and economics)

    CAREER
    House of Lords
  • A Deputy Speaker since 2010, and 2007-09
  • Active “working” peer since 1999
  • Lord-In-Waiting (minister in government whips’ office 2009-10), with responsibilities for transport and energy and climate change
  • Departmental Liaison Peer, Cabinet Office 2001-2005, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 2000-2001
  • Member of joint parliamentary scrutiny committee on the draft gambling bill 2003-04
  • Chair of all-party inquiry into betting on sport 2004-2005
  • Member of private bill select committee on London Local Authorities Bill 2006, chairman of London Local Authorities and Transport for London private bill select committee 2008
  • Member Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee 2007-2009
  • Member of European Communities Select Committee 2000-2003 (sub-committee B, energy, industry and transport)
  • Former member of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Executive Committee (member of UK delegation to annual conference in 2000, New Zealand 2000, Australia 2003 and 2008, Namibia 2004)
  • Member of Inter-Parliamentary Union (conference delegate in Jordan 2000, delegate to Japan 2008)
  • Member of Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, attached to Royal Navy 2002-03, 2005-07

    All party parliamentary groups - Countries
  • Vice chair British – ANZAC parliamentary group
  • Co-Chair British – Taiwanese parliamentary group (awarded Diplomatic Medal of Honour 2004. Order of the Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon 2008)
  • Secretary British - Norwegian parliamentary group
  • Secretary British – Argentine parliamentary group

    All party parliamentary groups - Subjects
  • Vice-chair, parliamentary rail heritage group
  • Treasurer all-party parliamentary railways group
  • Chair and founder all-party parliamentary war heritage group
  • Vice chair, parliamentary football group
  • Vice chair abolition of the death penalty group

    Business
  • Strategy Adviser: Littlewoods Leisure, 1999-2003, 2004-09
  • Deputy Chairman, Cardiff Millennium Stadium plc 2004-08, (Director1997- 2004)
  • Strategy Adviser, Alderney Gambling Control Commission (2005-08)
  • Non-executive director, Football Association of Wales (2007-09)

    Charities and voluntary organisations
  • Member, Board of Trustees, National Museum for Science and Industry 2007-09, 2011-
  • Chair-elect, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, advisory board 2012-
  • Member, advisory board National Railway Museum
  • Chair, NMSI railway heritage panel transition group
  • President, Cotswold Line Promotion Group (2007–09, 2010-)
  • Chair, Railway Heritage Committee 2004-09 (member 2002-09)
  • President, The Railway Heritage Association 2011-
  • Member, Board of Trustees, The National Football Museum 2007-09, 2011-
  • Vice President, The Football Conference 2007-09, 2010-
  • Vice President, The National Association of Disabled Supporters 2007-09, 2011-
  • President, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents 2001-2004, (Vice President 2004-09)
  • Patron, The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
  • Trustee, Foundation for Sport and the Arts
  • President OMT Society 2011-12
  • Member, Safer Sports Grounds Panel 1998-2004
  • Vice-chair, Football Task Force 1997-1999
  • First deputy chair, secretary and founder trustee, The Football Trust 1979-1998
  • Former director Wimbledon, Crystal Palace, Brighton and Hove Albion, and Oxford United football clubs
  • Member of FIFA Task Force “For the Good of the Game” 2006-09
  • Member Sports Council of Great Britain 1987-89
  • Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford (and UK Appeal chair 1996-2003)
  • Honorary DL University of Bedfordshire 2003
  • Fellow University of Worcester 2008
  • Gold Patron of Worcester Live
  • Patron of Guild of Battlefield Guides

    •    Former business career:

  • Research assistant and journalist, Labour Party, 1967-69
  • Public Relations Officer, Construction Industry Training Board, 1969-70
  • Editor, Steel News 1971
  • Account Director, F J Lyons (Public Relations) Ltd 1971-73
  • Director, PPR International 1973-76
  • Founder and Chairman Camden Associates (public affairs consultancy) 1976-89
  • Joint Managing Director and co-proprietor, Westminster Communications Group, 1989-1997
  • Deputy Chair, Citigate Westminster, 1997-1999
  • Government relations adviser to various companies, unions, councils, and bodies, 1973-99, including British Railways Board 1977-1998
  • Communications Adviser to the Bishop at Lambeth, 1990
  • Co-founder, The House Magazine parliamentary journal, member of Editorial Board 2003-

    Political
  • Communications Adviser to Leader of the Opposition and Labour Party (unpaid) in General Elections 1987, 1992, 1997
  • General election candidate (Labour) Devizes 1970, February 1974, Monmouth October 1974, Huddersfield West 1979
  • Councillor, London Borough of Merton 1971-1978

    Recreations
  •  Travelling by railway, collecting Lloyd George memorabilia and tinplate trains, watching association football

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