Lord Cotter Peer

Address:
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW

Date of Birth: 24.08.1938

Education: St Benedict's School, Ealing, Downside School, Somerset

Experience: After two years National Service in the Army he ran a small business in the distribution trade and been Managing Director of a small plastics manufacturing company

Council Experience: District Councillor 1986-90, Chair of the Council Youth Committee

Parliamentary Experience: 1997-2005 MP for Weston Super Mare, 2002-05 Shadow Ministerial Spokesman, Trade and Industry; in the 2001-2005 Parliament, Member of the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Select Committee

Memberships: ALDC, Amnesty International, the Green Liberal Democrats

Marital status/children: Married, two sons, one daughter

Interests: Small businesses, education, the economy and issues concerning disabled people

BIOGRAPHY

Lord Cotter has spent almost all his working life in small business, much of the time running his own company. 

Brian Cotter joined the Liberal Party in 1983 and has been active member of the Liberals and then the Liberal Democrats ever since. Before it was axed by the last Government, Brian served as a member of Weston Community Health Council. 

Brian has worked extensively with charities at local and national levels. Brian was the Liberal Democrat MP for Weston-super-Mare from 1997 to 2005. His policy expertise is in the Trade and Industry portfolio and he was appointed to the House of Lords in 2006.