Rt Hon Peter Lilley
Contact details
Westminster
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Tel: 020 7219 4577
Fax: 020 7219 3840
lilleyp@parliament.uk
Constituency
Riverside House, 1 Place Farm, Wheathampstead, AL4 8SB
Tel: 01582 834344
Fax: 01582 834884
feedback@peterlilley.co.uk
tory_herts@btconnect.com
Biography
Electoral history
Contested Haringey, Tottenham October 1974 general election. Member for St Albans 1983-97, for Hitchin and Harpenden 1997-2010, for Hitchin and Harpenden (revised boundary) since 6 May 2010 general election
Parliamentary career
Joint PPS to:
Lord Bellwin as Minister of State and William Waldegrave as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Environment 1984,
Nigel Lawson, as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1984-87;
Economic Secretary to the Treasury 1987-89;
Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1989-90;
Secretary of State for:
Trade and Industry 1990-92,
Social Security 1992-97;
Member, Shadow Cabinet and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997-98;
Deputy Leader of the Opposition (with overall responsibility for development of party policy) 1998-99
Party groups
Consultant director, Conservative Research Department 1979-83;
Contested Leadership of the Conservative Party June 1997;
Chair, Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group 2006-07
Select committees
Chair: Joint Committee on the Draft Financial Services Bill 2011-12;
Member: Energy and Climate Change 2012-
Councils, public bodies
Member, School of Management Advisory Board, Southampton University 2002-
Political interests
Economic policy, European Union, education, race relations
Countries of interest
Central Asia, France
General Election 2010 - Hitchin and Harpenden
| Name |
Party |
Votes |
% |
| Lilley, Peter |
Con |
29869 |
54.47% |
| Quinton, Nigel |
Lib Dem |
14598 |
26.62% |
| de Botton, Oli |
Lab |
7413 |
13.52% |
| Wilkinson, Graham |
UKIP |
1663 |
3.04% |
| Wise, Richard |
Green |
807 |
1.48% |
| Henderson, Margaret |
Ind |
109 |
0.2% |
| Byron, Simon |
CURE |
108 |
0.2% |
| Hannah, Eric |
YRDPL |
90 |
0.17% |
| Rigby, Peter |
Ind |
50 |
0.1% |
| Result |
Con Hold (2.47% from Lib Dem to Con) |