Viscount Younger of Leckie

James Younger

James Younger

Party

Conservative

Address as

Lord Younger

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353
youngerj@parliament.uk

Biography

Lords career

Elected Hereditary peer 2010-; Party Whip 2010-12; Government Whip 2012-13; Government Spokesperson for: Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport/Culture, Media and Sport 2012-13, Scotland 2012-13, Attorney General's Office 2012, Advocate General for Scotland 2012, Law Officers 2012-13, Transport 2012-13; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Government Spokesperson, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 2013-

Party groups

Chair, Buckingham Conservative Constituency Association 2006-10; Member, Association of Conservative Peers 2006-; Elected member, area board, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Conservatives 2009-; Chair, Milton Keynes Conservative Association 2010-

Political interests

Big Society, tourism, War Widows Association, localism, sports in schools, Lords reform, diversity and corporate responsibility, human resources, employment law, intergenerational

Countries of interest

Scotland

Register of Interests

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

In receipt of ministerial salary as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

5: Land and property

One quarter interest in Leckie House and the Leckie Estate, Stirlingshire, FK8 3BN

Flat in London SW8 owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received

Holiday home in Salcombe, Devon, from which rental income is received (held in a trust of which Member is a trustee)

10: Non-financial interests (c)

President, Kate Kennedy Club life members' association (St Andrews, Fife)

Trustee, Kate Kennedy Club Trust (St Andrews, Fife)

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Director, Highland Society of London

Trustee, Globe Run