The Rt Hon. the Lord Cunningham of Felling DL
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Cunningham of Felling's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Cunningham of Felling DL. His name is John Anderson Cunningham, and he has retired from the House of Lords.
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2024-03-06
Heat Pumps
My Lords, what studies have the Government carried out on terraced housing in our country? Many people live in terraced housing with little or no front gardens and little, if any, gardens behind. Where will the heat pumps go in those circumstances? What,
2024-01-17
NHS: Drug Shortages
I am sorry; will the noble Lord please focus on pancreatic cancer and say whether he is satisfied with the performance of the National Health Service and others in respect of research into and finding solutions to what in many respects is apparently beco
2024-01-17
NHS: Drug Shortages
My Lords, will the noble Earl please focus—
2023-02-07
Bread and Flour Regulations 1988
My Lords, between 80 and 90 countries now add folic acid to flour, with no known side-effects. What are the Government waiting for? All the evidence is there, all the science is there and this is all well known. I do not know, speaking for myself, what t
2023-02-01
Employment Rights Legislation
My Lords, why are the Government intent on diminishing scrutiny in this House, as is strongly suspected by many Members? Why are Members of this House being denied the opportunity to question Ministers on these changes, and why is Parliament itself, whic
2023-01-31
Horizon Europe: UK Participation
My Lords, since the Minister has considerable experience of the European Union and its institutions, why does he think that the European Union is behaving in this remarkably unkind way? Is there some explanation or is it just a question of the EU using
2022-10-25
Environment Act 2021: Targets
My Lords, what is the Minister’s reflection on the recent reports that only one river in England, the Tyne, met water quality standards to be able to sustain migratory fish? We cannot go on like this.
For most of my life, I have been an angler, a fly
2022-10-24
Energy Prices Bill
My Lords, I begin by expressing my wholehearted support for the speech given by my noble friend Lord Rooker. He has so comprehensively discussed these issues that it is barely necessary for me to support him, but I intend to do so wholeheartedly, as I ha
2022-10-24
Food: Imports and Security
My Lords, will the Minister focus for a moment on the inexorable increase in the number of food banks being used by people who simply cannot afford to shop elsewhere? This is a real problem. Fortunately for the United Kingdom, people have so far been gen
2022-10-19
Rwanda Asylum Partnership
My Lords—
2022-10-19
Rwanda Asylum Partnership
She is just reading her question out!
2022-10-19
Rwanda Asylum Partnership
My Lords, when will—
2022-07-06
Bread and Flour Regulations: Folic Acid
My Lords, why does the Minister refuse to implement the regulations when there is abundant evidence internationally in support of this? Even worse, what does he have to say to those 18 women each week who lose a baby because of the Government’s failure t
2022-06-28
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
My Lords, can the Minister remind the House of when Britain built a civil nuclear reactor on time and within budget? I ask this not to cast any doubt on the Minister’s commitment, but to say that we know that there are numerous opponents of civil nuclear
2022-05-24
Safeguarding of Young Children
My Lords, there was a very similar case during my time as the Member of Parliament for Copeland, in which a child, a small boy, was murdered by his stepfather. I know that that is not always the case, but it frequently is. I regret to say that successive
2022-05-24
Zoonoses Research Centre
My Lords, when the Labour Government were elected in 1997, we inherited the international beef ban. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy was a zoonosis which wreaked havoc on the British agriculture industry and our reputation, not just in Europe but interna
2022-04-06
Folic Acid Fortification
My Lords, why did the Minister not say—or give some indication—as to when this working group will report, first to the Government and secondly to this House? It has had long enough since my noble friend succeeded in moving this policy change. When does t
2022-03-28
Homes for Ukraine Scheme
My Lords, it is a simple question: how many Ukrainians have been admitted to the United Kingdom under this scheme? It is quite simple—or is the Minister telling us he does not know?
2022-03-22
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend—indeed, my very personal friend. He and I wrote the White Paper on the Food Standards Agency. It was necessary then and it was the right thing to do. The public had lost confidence in politicians of all partie
2022-03-09
Trade Talks with India, Greenland and Israel
My Lords, will the Minister commit the Government to including in the parliamentary scrutiny of the negotiating objectives the aim that global companies that try to abuse and infiltrate food markets—I am not suggesting that any of the three countries men
2022-03-02
National Farmers’ Union
My Lords, will the Minister protect British farmers and consumers by ensuring that those companies that have manipulated falsely markets in their own financial interests, as we have discussed before, are not allowed to operate in the United Kingdom marke
2022-02-24
National Food Strategy
My Lords, will the Minister guarantee that in the context of the national food strategy, those companies—I am sure he knows which ones they are—that have sought to manipulate meat and chicken products in various markets are excluded from trying to do the
My Lords, is it not a poor example to the country as a whole that here at Westminster we do not have the facility to charge electric vehicles? We are encouraging the whole country to buy electric vehicles and setting targets for the reduction of carbon,
2022-02-08
Mathematical Sciences
My Lords, the Minister has rightly defended a reasonably good record of government funding of mathematics. I applaud that, but he is he convinced that sufficient attention is being given to biology, chemistry, physics and other scientific subjects, many
2022-01-26
Racism in English Cricket
My Lords, does the noble Lord have an opinion about the abysmal performance of the Middlesex chairman in front of a House of Commons committee in the last few days when he displayed all the racism that too many white people at senior levels in cricket in
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Party history
2014-01-08 → 2026-04-20
Labour
2013-06-03 → 2014-01-07
Non-affiliated
1970-06-18 → 2013-06-02
Labour
Government posts
1998-07-27 → 1999-10-11
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister (Cabinet Office)
1997-05-03 → 1998-07-27
Minister of State (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
1976-09-10 → 1979-05-04
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Energy)
Opposition posts
1995-07-01 → 1997-05-01
Shadow Secretary of State for National Heritage
1994-07-21 → 1995-07-01
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
1992-09-20 → 1994-07-21
Shadow Foreign Secretary
1989-07-01 → 1992-04-09
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
1983-06-11 → 1989-07-01
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment
1979-05-05 → 1983-06-09
Shadow Spokesperson (Industry)
Committee memberships
1989-11-14 → 1992-03-16
Privileges
2002-07-09 → 2003-05-09
House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)
Chair
2002-06-19 → 2005-05-05
House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)
2006-05-23 → 2006-10-31
Conventions (Joint Committee)
Chair
+£12,500/yr
2006-05-22 → 2006-10-31
Conventions (Joint Committee)
2008-12-11 → 2013-05-15
Science and Technology Committee
2008-12-16 → 2010-04-08
Science and Technology: Sub-Committee I
2015-06-12 → 2017-04-27
EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee
2016-09-01 → 2021-01-28
Finance Committee (Lords)
2018-06-04 → 2022-01-19
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
2018-09-04 → 2019-04-30
SLSC Sub-Committee B
Chair
+£15,235/yr
2019-07-01 → 2021-01-28
Economic Affairs Committee
2022-01-19 → 2025-01-30
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 0 active officership(s) · 1 historic
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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