Lord Alton of Liverpool

Crossbench

MP for Life peer

Parliamentary Office

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

Top Focus Areas

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeDepartment for EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareHome OfficeMinistry of Justice

Parliamentary Career

Constituencies

Liverpool, Mossley Hill

Elected 3 times

Jun 1983 - May 1997

Liverpool, Edge Hill

Elected 2 times

Mar 1979 - Jun 1983

Party History

Crossbench

Jun 1997 - Present

Liberal Democrat

Mar 1988 - May 1997

Liberal

Mar 1979 - Mar 1988

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 Cheltenham Borough Council (Markets) BillCommons Childhood Vaccinations CommitteeLords 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

Recent Questions

3797 questions on record

To ask His Majesty's Government how many Daesh-affiliated members, or families of former Daesh fighters, have been brought to the UK from Syria over the past year; what risk assessment they are undertaking about this; and what steps they are taking to ens

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To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 11 Feb 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on 5 December 2025 (HC94719), what progress they have made in their response to the persecutio

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To: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office • 11 Feb 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government how many NHS prescriptions for (1) isotretinoin, and (2) spironolactone, have been issued in each year since 2014.

Answered

To: Department of Health and Social Care • 4 Feb 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking in response to the warning by MI5's director general that hostile states are shaping research and teaching content, including the use of professional networking sites and financial incentives to

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To: Department for Education • 9 Feb 2026

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the comment of the universities Minister, Baroness Smith of Malvern, that UK education has become "a prime target for foreign states", whether they will publish the details of the threats posed by foreign states

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To: Department for Education • 9 Feb 2026

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