The Rt Hon. the Lord Whitty

Labour Member of the House of Lords M

Lord Whitty's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Whitty. His name is John Lawrence Whitty, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

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Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Party history

1996-10-21 → present

Labour current

Government posts

2003-06-13 → 2005-05-10

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Food, Farming and Sustainable Energy)

2001-06-12 → 2003-06-13

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

1998-07-31 → 2001-06-11

Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2005-06-06 → 2006-11-08

Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I

2007-04-23 → 2007-08-03

Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee)

2015-06-08 → 2019-07-01

European Union Committee

2015-06-23 → 2019-07-02

EU Internal Market Sub-Committee Chair +£15,025/yr

2016-01-28 → 2016-02-29

Trade Union Political Funds and Political Party Funding Committee

2019-06-13 → 2020-06-23

Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee

2020-09-17 → 2021-02-04

Procedure and Privileges Committee

2021-04-14 → 2024-01-31

Environment and Climate Change Committee

2024-01-24 → 2025-03-28

Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

2025-01-30 → 2026-01-27

European Affairs Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office

whittyl@parliament.uk
020 7834 3811 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 3 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group	Role(s)	Funders	Officers in group	Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Energy Security Subject Group	Vice Chair	—	4	2025-06-27
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies Subject Group	Officer	Tamesis Services Ltd	4	2026-11-23
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Energy Costs Subject Group	Co-Chair	Royal Public Affairs	6	2024-05-21

One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Officer	Role	Party
Alun Cairns	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Alan Brown	Vice Chair	Scottish National Party
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom	Vice Chair	Conservative
Lord Whitty	Vice Chair	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Josh Newbury	Chair & Registered Contact	Labour
Sir Christopher Chope	Officer	Conservative
Henry Tufnell	Officer	Labour
Lord Whitty	Officer	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Alan Brown	Chair & Registered Contact	Scottish National Party
Lord Whitty	Co-Chair	Labour
Lord Deben	Vice Chair	Conservative
Peter Aldous	Vice Chair	Conservative
Julie Elliott	Vice Chair	Labour
Lord Lucas	Vice Chair	Conservative

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter

No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.

Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

1 bills 0 as lead sponsor 1 as supporter

Bill	Info	Role	Status	Introduced
Sustainable Communities Act 2007 (Amendment) Act 2010		Supported	Royal Assent	2009-12-16

Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.