The Rt Hon. the Lord Fowler
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Fowler's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Fowler. His name is Peter Norman Fowler, 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.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
5 Content(3.1%)
0 Not-Content(0.0%)
157 didn't vote(96.9%)
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
My Lords, HIV/AIDS may have gone off the front pages here in Britain, rightly or wrongly, but what is beyond doubt is that it remains a serious scourge in many countries overseas. How do our overseas assistance programmes, current and future, measure up
2026-01-08
Broadcasting: Recent Developments
My Lords, I am not remotely going to attempt a further summing up. We had a very good summing up from the Minister, and I congratulate her and the two spokesmen of the political parties on what they have said.
The debate has proved and established wha
2026-01-08
Broadcasting: Recent Developments
My Lords, when I first put down this Motion, it was really to draw the contrast between the amount of attention we are able to give to media issues in the House of Lords compared with the House of Commons. I do not think we have come out well out of that
2026-01-08
Broadcasting: Recent Developments
That this House takes note of recent developments in relation to broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
2025-12-01
AIDS
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. Today on World AIDS Day, we acknowledge the radical reduction that there has been in deaths from AIDS over past years, with deaths reducing worldwide from 1.4 million a year in 2010 to the present total of a
2025-12-01
AIDS
To ask His Majesty’s Government, in the light of World Aids Day 2025, when they estimate that the goal of eliminating AIDS as a public health threat will be reached.
2025-11-12
BBC Leadership
I ask that the noble Baroness should support the gold standard of the BBC in its reports, and in its general reporting duty.
2025-11-12
BBC Leadership
My Lords, I have been a journalist for 60 years, leaving aside a rather lively period in which I served with the late Baroness Thatcher. But apart from that, I have been a journalist, and in that time I have also chaired two regional newspaper groups.
2025-10-20
HIV: Testing and Medical Care
My Lords, I entirely support the case made by the noble Lord, Lord Black, but I urge the Government to go further. About 9 million people in the world who need HIV treatment are not receiving it at present. That position is being seriously worsened by th
2025-06-17
International Vaccine Programmes: Funding
My Lords, I very much appreciate the Answer that the Minister has given, but does she agree with me that there is far too much satisfaction shown by financial spokesmen on the reduction in overseas aid, given that the certain outcome is more illness and
2025-06-12
Political Parties and Elections Act 2009
My Lords, I know that, in my day, when I was party chairman—before I became independent—some of the biggest political donors were the trade unions. Does this review include the trade unions and the restrictions that could be placed on them?
2025-06-04
Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
My Lords, surely the only way of reaching some agreement on the size of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is by allowing in the international press and television. They can report on what is actually happening there, as opposed to putting and leaving it
2025-04-01
Birmingham City Council
My Lords, I declare an interest as having been a Member of Parliament for a Birmingham constituency—Sutton Coldfield—for 27 years, so I know a little about the area.
I am not sure that I agree with the Minister or my noble friend Lord Snape—he used to
2025-03-25
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, Amendment 85 is in my name. I will be extremely brief. I had originally written down that I agreed with some of what the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, had to say. Having listened to her, I am not sure that that fully explains my position; I found
2025-03-20
HIV/AIDS: US Withdrawal from WHO
My Lords, I am grateful for that reply. There have been, to date, 40 million deaths from AIDS across the world. Because of the success of efforts over the last years, official predictions were that AIDS could be eliminated as a public health disease by 2
2025-03-20
HIV/AIDS: US Withdrawal from WHO
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the United States of America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization on the global treatment of HIV/AIDS.
2025-03-04
Gaza: BBC Coverage
My Lords, I fully share the noble Lord’s criticism of the particular programme, but we should recognise that that in no way describes the BBC’s general coverage of Gaza. Speaking as a former journalist who covered a Middle East war, I was struck by the w
2025-02-26
Defence and Security
My Lords, I will raise two brief but important points. I accept entirely that we should make savings to pay for the resources we are giving to defence, and I entirely support the strongest possible support for Ukraine. However, I do not understand why al
2025-01-28
Community Pharmacy Closures
My Lords, is it not true that we have not used community pharmacies in this country to their full potential? That impression was confirmed for me when I was chairman of such a group. Should our policy not be to develop community pharmacies so that they m
2025-01-22
Political Parties: Donations from Abroad
I agree entirely with the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, but is there not a case for a review that goes rather wider than just political contributions from overseas? We have the issue, for example, of whether there should be a cap on all contributions made. Sure
2024-12-09
House of Lords: Numbers and Eligibility
I thank the noble Baroness the Leader of the House. If the aim of the Government is to reduce the size of the House, is not the most important action they can take to make an immediate commitment to follow a policy of restraint in making new appointments
2024-12-09
House of Lords: Numbers and Eligibility
To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce the number of peers who are eligible to sit in the House of Lords.
2024-11-28
BBC: Impartiality
My Lords, I do not agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Deech. The most important people in any news organisation, surely, are not the armchair correspondents, commentators or, for that matter, critics but the reporters. Is it not a fact that the BBC has
2024-11-25
NHS: Dentistry Provision
My Lords, no one fought harder for the elimination of dental deserts than Lord Colwyn, who died recently and whom most of us in this House remember. Would not the best memorial to Lord Colwyn be to place a new priority on dental services particularly for
2024-11-12
House of Lords Reform
I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord. He has gone on for a long time about consensus. I agree with him on that. Will he therefore explain why he did not support the very good 2016-17 report of the noble Lord, Lord Burns, which would have reduced number
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Party history
2021-05-01 → present
Crossbench
current
2016-09-01 → 2021-04-30
Lord Speaker
1970-06-18 → 2016-08-31
Conservative
Government posts
1987-06-13 → 1990-01-02
Secretary of State for Employment
1981-09-14 → 1987-06-13
Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
1981-01-05 → 1981-09-14
Secretary of State for Transport
1979-05-11 → 1981-01-05
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
Opposition posts
1998-06-02 → 1999-06-15
Shadow Secretary of State
1997-06-11 → 1998-06-02
Shadow Secretary of State
Committee memberships
2005-05-24 → 2006-11-08
BBC Charter Review Committee
2007-04-23 → 2010-04-08
Communications and Digital Committee
2010-12-20 → 2011-07-19
HIV and AIDS Committee in the United Kingdom
2016-09-01 → 2021-04-29
House of Lords Commission
Chair
+£15,025/yr
2016-12-07 → 2021-04-29
Procedure and Privileges Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS
Subject Group
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Vice Chair | Elton John AIDS Foundation · Gilead · IAVI · STOPAIDS | 16 | 2024-05-14 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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