He studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Worcester College, Oxford.

He was an unpaid communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

[1] He was raised to the peerage in 1999, as Baron Faulkner of Worcester, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton.

[1][2] He has served on a number of parliamentary committees, and lists his political interests as transport, sport, human rights, smoking and health, and sex equality.

[7] Lord Faulkner is married to Susan (née Heyes), with whom he has two daughters.