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The Lord Cotter

Liberal Democrat Life peer M
Lord Cotter is deceased. His full title was The Lord Cotter. His name was Brian Joseph Michael Cotter.

Pay & earnings · 2026

MP base salary £0 / £93,904 annual
0 days served — year-to-date · annual rate £93,904
Declared outside earnings £0
0 registered interests published in 2026
Total (salary + chair + declared) £0
Base salary: House of Commons Library SN02644 / IPSA. Earnings from Register of Interests (API), published during 2026.

Constituencies represented

1997-05-012005-05-05
Weston-Super-Mare

Party history

1997-05-012023-11-14
Liberal Democrat

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

1999-01-012010-05-06
Shadow Spokesperson
1997-05-011999-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson

Committee memberships

2001-07-162005-04-11
Regulatory Reform
2006-12-152010-04-08
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (Lords)
2015-06-232015-07-22
EU Internal Market Sub-Committee
Chair additional salary only applies to specified select committees under Standing Order 122B. Regular members receive no additional pay.

Contact

No contact details recorded.

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 2 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Family Business
Subject Group
Vice Chair Institute for Family Business (IFB) 8 2023-06-11
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.

Commons votes · 2026

No Commons votes recorded for 2026.

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 MPs who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
Bill Info Role Status Introduced
Retail Development Bill [HL] Sponsored 3rd reading 2008-01-22
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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