Lord Wallace of Tankerness

Liberal Democrat

MP for Life peer

Parliamentary Office

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

Top Focus Areas

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyCabinet OfficeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeDepartment for International TradeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Parliamentary Career

Positions Held

Deputy Leader of the House of Lords

Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

Oct 2013 - May 2015

Lords Spokesperson (Scotland Office)

Scotland Office

May 2010 - May 2015

Lords Spokesperson (Attorney General's Office)

Attorney General's Office

May 2010 - May 2015

Lords Spokesperson (Wales Office)

Wales Office

May 2010 - Sept 2012

Advocate General for Scotland

Office of the Advocate General for Scotland

May 2010 - May 2015

Constituencies

Orkney and Shetland

Elected 1 time

May 1997 - Jun 2001

Orkney and Shetland

Elected 3 times

Jun 1983 - May 1997

Party History

Liberal Democrat

Oct 2022 - Present

Non-affiliated

Jan 2021 - Oct 2022

Liberal Democrat

Mar 1988 - Dec 2020

Liberal

Jun 1983 - Mar 1988

Registered Interests

No registered interests found.

Recent Votes

No voting records found

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

27 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government which universities were represented in the delegation which accompanied the Prime Minister to India in October.

Answered

To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 16 Oct 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to signing and ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents.

Answered

To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 16 Dec 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government what (1) tools, and (2) criteria, the Department for International Trade will use to monitor Pakistan's compliance with the human rights and labour provisions of the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.

Answered

To: Department for International Trade • 3 Nov 2022

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking or plan to take to implement the recommendations of the Bishop of Truro's independent review of the FCDO support for persecuted Christians: assessment of recommendation's implementation, published

Answered

To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 2 Nov 2022

To ask His Majesty's Government what role the Foreign Policy and Security Council will play in co-ordinating inter-departmental collaboration between the Department for International Trade and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Answered

To: Cabinet Office • 3 Nov 2022

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Positions Held

Deputy Leader of the House of Lords

Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

Oct 2013 - May 2015

Lords Spokesperson (Scotland Office)

Scotland Office

May 2010 - May 2015

Lords Spokesperson (Attorney General's Office)

Attorney General's Office

May 2010 - May 2015

Lords Spokesperson (Wales Office)

Wales Office

May 2010 - Sept 2012

Advocate General for Scotland

Office of the Advocate General for Scotland

May 2010 - May 2015

Constituencies

Orkney and Shetland

Elected 1 time

May 1997 - Jun 2001

Orkney and Shetland

Elected 3 times

Jun 1983 - May 1997

Party History

Liberal Democrat

Oct 2022 - Present

Non-affiliated

Jan 2021 - Oct 2022

Liberal Democrat

Mar 1988 - Dec 2020

Liberal

Jun 1983 - Mar 1988