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The Lord Filkin CBE

Labour Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Filkin's full title is The Lord Filkin CBE. His name is David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

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

Party history

2019-01-07present
Labour current
2013-11-132019-01-06
Non-affiliated
1999-07-292013-11-12
Labour

Government posts

2004-09-092005-05-10
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education and Skills) (Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare) (also Department for Work and Pensions)
2003-06-132004-09-09
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Constitutional Affairs)
2002-05-292003-06-13
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2005-06-062009-11-12
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
2010-07-272011-04-26
Leader's Group on Working Practices
2011-12-212013-12-18
Procedure and Privileges Committee
2012-05-292013-03-05
Public Service and Demographic Change Committee Chair +£14,582/yr
2019-06-132020-06-16
Gambling Industry Committee
2020-02-132023-01-31
Public Services Committee
2023-01-312026-01-27
Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
gfilkin1@aol.com
020 7219 0640 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity
Subject Group
Secretary Collider Health 7 2023-05-15
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.

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)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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