The Lord Truscott | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – 17 October 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | The Lord Evans of Temple Guiting |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Bach |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy | |
| In office 10 November 2006 – 28 June 2007 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Wicks |
| Succeeded by | Malcolm Wicks |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 10 June 2004 Life Peerage | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Hertfordshire | |
| In office 9 June 1994 – 10 June 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Derek Prag |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Peter Derek Truscott 20 March 1959 Newton Abbot, Devon, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Peter Derek Truscott, Baron Truscott (born 20 March 1959) is a British petroleum and mining consultant, independent member of the House of Lords and writer. He was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 1999 and was elevated to the peerage in 2004. He has written on Russia, defence and energy, and works with a variety of companies in the field of non-renewable resource extraction.
Previously somewhat low-profile in British politics, Truscott made headlines in 2009 as one of four Labour peers named by the Sunday Times as being willing to accept money to help companies amend bills that would have an adverse effect on them.[1] He consequently became one of the first peers suspended from the House of Lords since the 17th century.
- ^ "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law". Sunday Times. London. 25 January 2009. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
he agreed to help them amend a government bill that was harmful to their client, in return for cash. He said he had done similar work before. He said he had intervened on the Energy Bill — a piece of legislation he had been responsible for as a minister only months earlier.