Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Richard Faulkner has been an active member of the House of Lords
since 1999, during which time he has spoken frequently on football-related
issues in the House.
He is currently a member of the Home Office's working group on football disorder,
and is a vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary football group.
He was vice-chair of the Government's Football Task Force, and was
previously First Deputy Chairman of the Football Trust, having served
successively as a trustee and secretary.
He was a member of the Football
League's Inquiry into Membership Schemes in the 1980s, and played
a major part in the programme of rebuilding football stadia in the
aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster.
He is a non-executive public
interest director of the Cardiff Millennium Stadium company, and
served in a similar role at the request of the Football Association
on the board of Brighton and Hove Albion FC following the club's
reconstruction in the 1990s.
