Lord Mawhinney

Brian Mawhinney

Brian Mawhinney

Party

Conservative

Address as

Lord Mawhinney

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5211
Fax: 020 7219 0034

Biography

Electoral history

Contested Teesside Stockton October 1974 general election. MP (Conservative) for Peterborough 1979-97, for North West Cambridgeshire 1997-2005

Parliamentary career

PPS: to Barney Hayhoe as Minister of State HM Treasury 1982-84; to Tom King as Secretary of State for: Employment 1983-85, Northern Ireland 1984-86; Northern Ireland Office: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State 1986-90, Minister of State 1990-92; Minister of State, Department of Health 1992-94; Secretary of State for Transport 1994-95; Minister without Portfolio 1995-97; Shadow Home Secretary 1997-98

Party groups

National President, Conservative Trade Unionists 1987-90; Chair, Conservative Party 1995-97; Member, governing council, Conservative Christian Fellowship

Councils, public bodies

Deputy chair, England 2018 World Cup Bid 2009-10

Political interests

Health, Northern Ireland, Anglo-American relations, trade and industry

Countries of interest

Middle East, USA

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Mawhinney, of Peterborough in the County of Cambridgeshire 2005

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Non-executive Director, Westcoast Ltd (supplier of IT products)

Chairman, Malone Consulting Limited (private company; the company's income derives from work the Member does for Westcoast Limited and National Football League (see category 2))

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Mediator, International Mediation and Arbitration Services LLP

Special Adviser, National Football League International

4: Shareholdings (a)

Malone Consulting Limited (see category 1)

10: Non-financial interests (a)

President, Football League (an honorary unremunerated post)

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Chairman, More Than Gold (charity which oversees Churches' and Christian organisations' responses to 2012 Olympics)