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Lord Truscott

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy

Lord Truscott - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy

 

 

 

 

Portfolio:

  • Supports the Secretary of State on energy issues
  • Sustainability and the environment
  • Security of energy supply
  • Fuel poverty
  • Nuclear security
  • Shareholder Executive energy portfolio
  • Covers all DTI business in the House of Lords

 

Biography:

Lord Truscott was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy on 10 November 2006.
 
Lord (Peter) Truscott of St James's is a Labour peer. He is a former member of the House of Lords European Union Committee, Sub Committee C (Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Policy), and a former departmental liaison peer to the Ministry of Defence.

In the European Parliament he represented Hertfordshire (1994 - 1999), and was Labour's Foreign Affairs and Defence spokesperson, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Vice-President of the Security Sub Committee. He was also a member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the Russian Federation.

In addition to being rapporteur and shadow rapporteur for a number of European parliamentary reports (including future strategy towards Central Asia and the association agreement with Estonia), he formally contributed to the UK's Strategic Defence Review.

Following his doctorate from Oxford University, he has written extensively on foreign and security policy. An expert on the former Soviet Union and European security, he was visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Public Policy Research from 1999 - 2000. He was recently an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. His major publications include Russia First (1997), European Defence (2000), Kursk, (2002) and Putin's Progress (2004). He has regularly appeared as a political analyst on the BBC, CNN and Sky TV.

 

Minister's Speeches

 

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