Lord Blencathra

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353

Biography

Electoral history

MP (Conservative) for Penrith and The Border 1983 by-election to 2010

Parliamentary career

Assistant Government Whip 1987-89; Government Whip 1988-89; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1989-92; Minister of State: Department of the Environment 1992-93, Home Office 1993-97; Opposition Chief Whip 2001-03, 2003-05; Member House of Commons Commission 2006

Select committees

Chair: Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments 2006; Member: Liaison 2006

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Blencathra, of Penrith in the County of Cumbria 2011

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Director, Two Lions Consultancy Ltd (general public affairs consultancy advice (see category 4(a)); payments for services personally provided by the Member are made to Two Lions Consultancy Ltd; these payments include those in category 2 and category 3; present clients of Two Lions Consultancy Ltd whom the Member personally advises are: Media House Ltd; Castlepines Investment Corporation Ltd; Winkworth Estate and Letting Agents (see category 3)

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Director, Cayman Islands Government Office in the United Kingdom

3: Clients

Present clients of Two Lions Consultancy Ltd whom the Member personally advises are: Media House Ltd; Castlepines Investment Corporation Ltd; Winkworth Estate and Letting Agents

4: Shareholdings (a)

Two Lions Consultancy Ltd is 100 per cent owned by the Member and his wife