Baroness Whitaker

Janet Whitaker

Janet Whitaker

Party

Labour

Address as

Baroness Whitaker

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 8524
Fax: 020 7219 6915

Biography

Lords career

International Development Liaison Peer 1999-2007; Chair: Design in Public Procurement Inquiry 2009, Design Education Inquiry 2011

Councils, public bodies

Magistrate 1985-2006; Member, Employment Tribunal 1995-2000; Deputy chair and chair, Camden Racial Equality Council 1996-99; Non-executive director, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust 1997-2001; Member, Immigration Complaints Audit Committee 1998-99

International bodies

Member: Inter-Parliamentary Union, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, UK advisory panel, United Nations Association 2006-

Political interests

Architecture and design, international development, race relations

Countries of interest

Africa, Asia, Europe

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Whitaker, of Beeston in the County of Nottinghamshire 1999

Register of Interests

10: Non-financial interests (a)

Fellow, Working Men's College (adult education; the Working Men's College Corporation is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales)

10: Non-financial interests (c)

Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

10: Non-financial interests (d)

Member, Advisory Board, British Institute of Human Rights

Vice President, British Humanist Association

Vice President, One World Trust

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Member, UNA-UK Advisory Panel

President, South Downs Society