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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

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

Club
Reform

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