Baroness Trumpington

Contact details

Westminster

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

Biography

Lords career

Government Whip 1983-85; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Health and Social Security 1985-87; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Parliamentary Secretary 1987-89, Minister of State 1989-92; Extra Baroness in Waiting to HM The Queen 1998-; Government Whip 1992-97; Government Spokesperson for: Office of Public Service 1996-97, Department of National Heritage, Agriculture

Party groups

Chair, Cambridge City Conservative Association 1969-71

Councils, public bodies

Cambridge City Council: Councillor 1963-73, Mayor of Cambridge 1971-72; Councillor, Cambridgeshire County Council 1973-75; JP: Cambridgeshire 1972-75, South Westminster 1975-82; Member: Board of visitors, HM Prison, Pentonville 1975-81, Mental Health Review Tribunal 1975-1981; General Commissioner of Taxes 1975-83; United Kingdom representative to the United Nations Status of Women Commission 1979-81; Chair, Airline Users Committee 1979-80

Political interests

Agriculture, House of Lords heritage, medical

Countries of interest

France, Italy, Madagascar, Mongolia, Spain, USA

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Trumpington, of Sandwich in the County of Kent 1980

Register of Interests

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Fee received from Hat Trick Productions Limited (8 January 2013) as payment for appearing on "Have I Got News For You"