Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 3341
Biography
Electoral history
Contested Wandsworth, Putney 1959 general election. MP (Labour) for Lincoln 1962-72 (resigned), (Democratic Labour) for Lincoln March 1973 to September 1974. Contested (SDP) Southwark, Peckham 1982 by-election and Dulwich 1983 general election
Parliamentary career
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office 1966-68;
HM Treasury:
Minister of State 1968-69,
Financial Secretary 1969-70
Lords career
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for:
Treasury 1998-2005,
(Euro) 2001-05
Party groups
Member:
National Committee, Social Democratic Party 1981-87;
Federal Policy Committee, Liberal Democrats 1989-90
Councils, public bodies
Chair:
Public Policy Centre 1983-87,
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Ltd 1996-2008,
Sense About Science 2002-
International bodies
Member, International Independent Review Body to review workings of European Commission 1979
Political interests
Science and technology, European Union, crime and drugs, tax, economic policy
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Taverne, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster 1996
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Occasional lectures and articles, including regular lectures for Institute for Education Abroad
4: Shareholdings (b)
HSBC (banking)
Halma (electronics)
Unilever (beverages and food)
Dechra (chemicals)
GlaxoSmithKline (pharmaceuticals)
Babcock International (support services)
N Brown Group plc (retail)
National Grid (utilities)
Law Debenture plc (equity investment)
Spectris (electronics)
Johnson Matthey (chemicals)
Britvic (beverages)
Rotork (engineering)
Legal and General (insurance)
Informa (media)
AMEC (oil equipment)
BG Group (gas)
BP (oil and gas)
Royal Dutch Shell "B" (oil and gas)
Tesco (retail)
Vodafone (communications)
Restaurant Group (travel and leisure)