The Lord Aberdare

Crossbench Member of the House of Lords M

Lord Aberdare's full title is The Lord Aberdare. His name is Alastair John Lyndhurst Bruce, and he has retired from the House of Lords.

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Allowance claims · 2026

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

Party history

2009-07-20 → 2025-08-31

Crossbench

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

None recorded.

Committee memberships

2012-05-16 → 2015-03-30

Information Committee (Lords)

2014-06-12 → 2015-02-04

Digital Skills

2015-06-23 → 2019-07-02

EU Internal Market Sub-Committee

2020-12-15 → 2021-03-08

Highgate Cemetery Bill [HL] Committee

2023-01-31 → 2023-11-23

Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee

2024-01-24 → 2024-09-16

Statutory Inquiries Committee

Contact

No contact details recorded.

APPGs (2026) · 4 active officership(s) · 12 historic

Group	Role(s)	Funders	Officers in group	Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group Subject Group	Co-Chair	—	4	2024-05-28
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Digital Skills Subject Group	Officer	—	16	2024-05-28
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Minimally Invasive Cancer Therapies Subject Group	Officer	Healthcomms Consulting Ltd	4	2024-11-04
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pancreatic Cancer Subject Group	Vice Chair	Pancreatic Cancer UK	7	2022-01-11

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.

Officer	Role	Party
Alexander Stafford	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Lord Aberdare	Co-Chair	Crossbench
Lord Aberdare	Co-Chair	Conservative
Mark Garnier	Vice Chair	Conservative
Baroness Andrews	Vice Chair	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Chris Green	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Jonathan Gullis	Vice Chair	Conservative
Baroness Neville-Jones	Vice Chair	Conservative
Lord Goddard of Stockport	Vice Chair	Liberal Democrat
Lord Mair	Vice Chair	Crossbench
Lord Inglewood	Vice Chair	Crossbench
Lord Inglewood	Vice Chair	Conservative
Dame Siobhain McDonagh	Officer	Labour
Damian Collins	Officer	Conservative
Miriam Cates	Officer	Conservative
Owen Thompson	Officer	Scottish National Party
Lord Knight of Weymouth	Officer	Labour
Baroness Verma	Officer	Conservative
Lord Lucas	Officer	Conservative
Lord Aberdare	Officer	Crossbench
Lord Aberdare	Officer	Conservative
Lord Hall of Birkenhead	Officer	Crossbench
Baroness Goudie	Officer	Labour

Officer	Role	Party
Greg Smith	Chair & Registered Contact	Conservative
Sir George Howarth	Vice Chair	Labour
Anna Firth	Officer	Conservative
Lord Aberdare	Officer	Crossbench
Lord Aberdare	Officer	Conservative

Officer	Role	Party
Jim Shannon	Chair & Registered Contact	Democratic Unionist Party
Lord Aberdare	Vice Chair	Crossbench
Lord Aberdare	Vice Chair	Conservative
Lord Patel	Vice Chair	Crossbench
Sir George Howarth	Vice Chair	Labour
Lord Porter of Spalding	Vice Chair	Conservative
Colleen Fletcher	Vice Chair	Labour
Henry Smith	Officer	Conservative

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)

1 bills 1 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter

Bill	Info	Role	Status	Introduced
Construction (Retentions Abolition) Bill [HL]		Sponsored	1st reading	2021-10-25

Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.