Peter Truscott
Private Eye reports:
- Peter Truscott was once a humble Labour Euro MP. Then he became Lord Truscott, energy minister. Now he has become a consultant to a financial PR firm called Gavin Anderson, whose 'public affairs' unit specialises in what it calls 'influencing legislation'. Gavin Anderson's most notable client? The controversial energy giant, Gazprom.[1]
In January 2009 Lord Truscott was involved in the 'erminegate' affair when a Sunday Times undercover investigation revealed that he was willing to help amend laws in exchange for money.[2]
Current Posts
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria member
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy, Since November 2006
Former Positions
- Member of the House of Lords European Union Committee
- Former departmental liaison peer to the Ministry of Defence
- MEP Hertfordshire (1994 - 1999)
- Labour's Foreign Affairs and Defence spokesperson
- Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
- Vice-President of the Security Sub Committee
- Member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the Russian Federation
- Claims to have written extensively on foreign and security policy. An expert on the former Soviet Union and European security
- Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Public Policy Research from 1999 - 2000[3]
Notes
- ↑ Private Eye, No. 1206, 21 March - 3 April 2008, p. 5
- ↑ Nicholas Watt, 'Erminegate: police called to examine corruption allegations in House of Lords', The Guardian, 26 January 2009.
- ↑ BERR Website Our Ministerial Team accessed 16th June 2008
