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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Lord Anderson of Swansea

The Rt Hon. the Lord Anderson of Swansea

Labour Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Anderson of Swansea's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Anderson of Swansea. His name is Donald Anderson, 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.

Party history

1966-03-31present
Labour current

Government posts

None recorded.

Opposition posts

1994-01-011996-01-01
Shadow Solicitor General
1993-01-011994-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Defence, Disarmament and Arms Control)
1983-01-011992-01-01
Shadow Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)

Committee memberships

1981-11-201983-05-13
Welsh Affairs Committee Chair
1979-12-141983-06-09
Welsh Affairs Committee
1997-07-142005-07-11
Liaison Committee (Commons)
1981-12-081983-06-09
Liaison Committee (Commons)
1992-10-261994-02-23
Home Affairs Committee
1997-07-162005-07-12
Foreign Affairs Committee Chair
2009-05-112009-07-16
Draft Bribery Bill (Joint Committee)
2012-05-172015-03-30
EU Sub Committee E - Justice, Institutions and Consumer Protection
2017-06-272020-04-23
EU Justice Sub-Committee
2020-04-232021-03-31
EU Security and Justice Sub-Committee
2021-01-282024-01-31
International Relations and Defence Committee
2024-01-31present
International Agreements Committee

Contact

Parliamentary office
contactholmember@parliament.uk
020 7219 5353 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 6 active officership(s) · 13 historic

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Slovakia
Country Group
Vice Chair 12 2024-07-06
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Community Development in Europe
Subject Group
Senior Vice Chair 9 2023-07-03
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Egypt
Country, Area or Region Group
Vice Chair 4 2026-07-04
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Iran
Country Group
Vice Chair 7 2021-05-16
Austria All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Co-Chair 4 2025-05-21
Czech and Slovak All-Party Parliamentary Group
Country Group
Co-Chairman 5 2021-06-12
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.

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)

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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