Lord Barnett

Labour

MP for Life peer

Top Focus Areas

HM TreasuryDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills

Parliamentary Career

Positions Held

Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

HM Treasury

May 1979 - Jul 1979

Chief Secretary to the Treasury

HM Treasury

Mar 1974 - May 1979

Shadow Spokesperson

Opposition Department

Aug 1970 - Jul 1974

Constituencies

Heywood and Royton

Elected 3 times

Feb 1974 - Jun 1983

Heywood and Royton

Elected 3 times

Oct 1964 - Feb 1974

Registered Interests

No registered interests found.

Recent Votes

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Committee Memberships

Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) BillCommons Administration CommitteeCommons Administration Estimate Audit and Risk Assurance CommitteeCommons Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)Lords Autism Act 2009 CommitteeLords Backbench Business CommitteeCommons Bishop's Stortford Cemetery BillCommons Built Environment CommitteeLords Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]Commons Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]: Programming sub-committeeCommons Business and Trade CommitteeCommons Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export ControlsCommons City of London (Markets) BillCommons Committee of PrivilegesCommons Committee of SelectionCommons Committee of Selection (Lords)Lords Committee on StandardsCommons Committees on Arms Export ControlsCommons Commons Reference Group on Representation and InclusionCommons Communications and Digital CommitteeLords Conduct CommitteeLords Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)Joint Constitution CommitteeLords Controlled Drugs (Procedure for Specification) BillCommons Court of RefereesCommons Courts (Remote Hearings) BillCommons Culture, Media and Sport CommitteeCommons Culture, Media and Sport Sub-committee on Online Harms and DisinformationCommons Defence CommitteeCommons Defence Sub-CommitteeCommons

Recent Questions

10 questions on record

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, according to the latest figures, what is the difference between the average public expenditure per head in Scotland and in England; and whether that figure has increased since the Select Committee on the Barnett Formula pu

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To: HM Treasury • 26 Sep 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they propose to maximise the availability of new pension freedoms.

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To: HM Treasury • 1 Sep 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Newby on 9 July (HL Deb, cols 209–11), whether they intend to continue to encourage investments in (1) the alternative investment market, (2) start-up businesses, and (3) forestry, in the ligh

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To: HM Treasury • 28 Jul 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the recent calculations by the Taxpayers’ Alliance that £120 billion of public funds was wasted last year; and what actions they are taking to ensure that public spending offers value for m

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To: HM Treasury • 24 Jul 2014

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Office for National Statistics’ calculation that the United Kingdom trade deficit widened in May, compared with April.

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To: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills • 16 Jul 2014

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