The Lord Mandelson
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Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Mandelson's full title is The Lord Mandelson. His name is Peter Benjamin Mandelson, and he has retired from the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
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Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2024-11-28
Civil Service: Politicisation
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Butler, on introducing what is a very important topic for debate. I hold him in the highest esteem. Indeed, when I first became a Minister in the Cabinet Office in 1997, I felt as if I ended up, in effect, wo
2023-11-13
King’s Speech
My Lords, I will focus on economic growth and the need for investment to achieve this.
Weekend reports suggest that the Government intend to cut business taxes in the Autumn Statement by extending the tax deduction for companies’ investment in IT equi
2021-07-20
Legacy of Northern Ireland’s Past
My Lords, it must be right in principle that every family bereaved in the conflict should have access to an effective investigation and meaningful process of justice, regardless of the perpetrator. This, rightly, has guided every Government since the Goo
2021-04-14
Inclusive Society
My Lords, I express many congratulations to my noble friend Lady Lister on this debate. Events test a country and this pandemic has revealed that we need to be far more resilient both as a society and as an economy. Resilience means the state and its ser
2021-03-25
Northern Ireland and Great Britain: Trade
My Lords, the Government are in real danger of blundering around in Northern Ireland on these sensitive trade issues. The unionists feel, understandably, that putting a trade border down the Irish Sea is a betrayal of their community. To mitigate this, w
2020-07-01
Covid-19: Orchestras and Cultural Venues
I declare my interest as chair of the Design Museum in its new premises in the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. Perhaps I may acknowledge the emergency short-term help that has been offered by the Government to national portfolio org
My Lords, I chair the trustees of the Design Museum, which opened in 2017 in the iconic former Commonwealth Institute building. There is no other design museum like it in the world, with its exhibitions and its learning and entrepreneurial programmes, wh
2019-09-05
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
My Lords, I must say I am slightly lost for words and do not know quite what to say in—
2019-09-05
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
Perhaps my recollection is at fault, but I do not remember a huge amount of debate about the respective merits of a soft and hard Brexit, let alone a no-deal Brexit.
In conclusion, I do not think that you can arrive at a clear choice about how we leav
2019-09-05
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
I do not remember any of those intricacies, highways and byways being set out by anyone at the time or since—but, of course, the House will be interested in what the noble Baroness has to say.
The fact that any possibility of maintaining frictionless
2019-09-05
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
Nor am I. I am not so sure that we should just push them all to one side as though they have absolutely no potential whatever. That is not my view. My view is that they are not realisable in the foreseeable future and that, in the meantime, we would put
2019-09-05
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, with whom I have seen eye to eye on almost all business questions—certainly the majority of them—in the past.
Before I comment briefly on the Bill itself, I shall make two preliminary remarks. T
2019-09-05
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill
I think it is the turn of this side, but there is plenty of time.
2018-07-23
Brexit: Preparations and Negotiations
I should have been on that list.
2018-07-23
Brexit: Preparations and Negotiations
What a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, with his wounding insight and sagacity. I agree with him that this White Paper will not endure as a basis of our negotiation with the European Union, and I shall come back to that in a moment. It
2018-05-08
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
My Lords, this House has already voted in favour of the customs union to stop the imposition of trade barriers that would decimate our manufacturing base. We did so, I suggest, with the tacit support of half the Cabinet, and a majority of Conservative MP
2018-01-30
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
My Lords, the noble Lord squeezed in very enjoyably. Following the referendum in 2016, as much as I regretted the result, I took the view that it must be upheld. I believed that the Government should deliver Britain’s exit from the European Union and th
2018-01-08
Industrial Strategy
My Lords, I am very glad to follow the Minister, who set out the vision of the White Paper rather well. I hope noble Lords will forgive me if I do not dwell at any length on Brexit. That will at least allow me to agree with the Prime Minister on one thi
2017-06-28
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, in the spirit of the noble Lord’s plea for cross-party agreement, perhaps I may say how much I agree with his successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer. I agree with Philip Hammond when he said that we cannot retain the trade advantages of EU me
With great respect, we would not be mere recipients. We would be large, senior, influential members of the EEA negotiating our membership of it on terms that would give us significant influence over policy-making and rule-making in the European Union. Ev
Sorry, but would my noble friend allow me?
My Lords, it is not a question of everything being hunky-dory, but of how desperately worse off we would be were we not to remain in the single market. For goodness’ sake, let us apply a little reality to this. Even President Trump may wake up one day an
Why am I not fighting to keep us in the European Union? My word! Judging by my email inbox, the noble Lord must be the only person in the country who does not believe that I am fighting for Britain’s continued membership of the European Union. Of course
My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness because, with her sharpness and clarity, she has brought this debate back to earth with a bump. Yes, whether we stay in the single market goes to the heart of the Brexit debate but, much more imp
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Party history
2026-02-02 → 2026-02-04
Non-affiliated
1992-04-09 → 2026-02-01
Labour
Government posts
2009-06-06 → 2010-05-06
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
2009-06-06 → 2010-05-06
Lord President of the Council (Privy Council Office)
2008-10-13 → 2009-06-05
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
1999-10-11 → 2001-01-24
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1998-07-27 → 1998-12-22
Secretary of State for Trade
1997-05-05 → 1998-07-26
Minister without Portfolio
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
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Contact
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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date.
Historic bills (all-time)
3 bills
2 as lead sponsor
1 as supporter
| Bill | Info | Role | Status | Introduced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Economy Act 2010 | Sponsored | Royal Assent | 2009-11-19 | |
| Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Act | Supported | Royal Assent | 2009-03-04 | |
| Postal Services Bill [HL] | Sponsored | 2nd reading | 2009-02-25 |
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