John Spellar

The Right Honourable The Lord Spellar PC
Spellar in 2025
Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 8 October 2010 – 18 September 2015
Leader	Ed Miliband Harriet Harman
Preceded by	Chris Bryant
Succeeded by	Catherine West
Comptroller of the Household
In office 5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Tommy McAvoy
Succeeded by	Alistair Carmichael
Junior ministerial positions Minister of State for Northern Ireland In office 13 June 2003 – 10 May 2005 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Des Browne Succeeded by David Hanson Minister of State for Transport In office 8 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston Succeeded by Kim Howells Minister of State for the Armed Forces In office 29 July 1999 – 8 June 2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by Doug Henderson Succeeded by Adam Ingram Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence In office 6 May 1997 – 28 July 1999 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by The Earl Howe Succeeded by Peter Kilfoyle
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 12 August 2024
Member of Parliament
In office 9 April 1992 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	Peter Archer
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Warley West (1992–1997) Warley (1997–2024)
In office 28 October 1982 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Jocelyn Cadbury
Succeeded by	Roger King
Constituency	Birmingham Northfield
Personal details
Born	John Francis Spellar (1947-08-05) 5 August 1947 Bromley, Kent, England
Party	Labour
Spouse	Anne Wilmot ​ ​ (m. 1981; died 2003)​
Children	1
Alma mater	St Edmund Hall, Oxford

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John Francis Spellar, Baron Spellar (born 5 August 1947), is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warley, formerly Warley West, from 1992 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he previously represented Birmingham Northfield from 1982 to 1983. He served as a minister in various departments between 1997 and 2005, and as Comptroller of the Household in the Whips' Office between 2008 and 2010. After Labour entered opposition, he served as a shadow Foreign Office minister from 2010 to 2015.