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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Lord Howarth of Newport CBE

The Rt Hon. the Lord Howarth of Newport CBE

Labour Life peer M
Lord Howarth of Newport is deceased. His full title was The Rt Hon. the Lord Howarth of Newport CBE. His name was Alan Thomas Howarth.

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
Newport East
1983-06-091997-05-01
Stratford-on-Avon

Party history

1995-10-072025-09-10
Labour
1983-06-091995-10-07
Conservative

Government posts

1998-07-282001-06-07
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Arts)
1997-05-061998-07-28
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education and Employment)
1989-07-241992-11-28
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Education and Science)
1988-07-271989-07-24
Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip)
1987-06-181988-07-25
Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

1995-11-271997-03-21
Social Security
2001-07-302005-07-11
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
2007-11-152008-07-07
Intergovernmental Organisations Committee
2017-06-292018-03-20
Political Polling and Digital Media Committee
2019-07-012023-01-31
Constitution 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) · 2 active officership(s) · 3 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing
Subject Group
Co-Chair National Centre for Creative Health 6 2024-04-14
Norfolk Island All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Vice-Chairman 4 2025-06-04
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)

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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