Baroness Seccombe

Joan Seccombe

Joan Seccombe

Party

Conservative

Address as

Baroness Seccombe

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 4558
Fax: 020 7219 3602
seccombej@parliament.uk

Biography

Lords career

Opposition Whip 1997-2001; Opposition Deputy Chief Whip 2001-10 Opposition Spokesperson for: Education and Skills 2003-04, Legal Affairs 2003-06, Home Affairs 2004-07; Extra Baroness in Waiting to HM The Queen 2004-; Opposition Spokesperson for: Constitutional Affairs 2005-06, Constitutional and Legal Affairs/Justice 2006-10; Party Whip 2010-

Party groups

Chairman: West Midlands Conservative Women's Committee 1975-78, Conservative Women's National Committee 1981-84; National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations: Chairman 1987-88, Vice-chairman 1984-87, Member of Executive 1975-97; Chairman, Conservative Party Annual Conference, Blackpool 1987; Vice-chairman, Conservative Party with special responsibility for Women 1987-97

Councils, public bodies

JP, Solihull 1968-2000, Chairman of Bench 1981-84; Chairman, Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee, Solihull 1975-93; Councillor, West Midlands County Council 1977-81, Chairman, Trading Standards Committee 1979-81; Member, Women's National Commission 1984-90; Governor, Nuffield Hospitals 1988-2001; Vice-President, Institute of Trading Standards Administration 1992-

Political interests

Women's issues, family, criminal justice

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Seccombe, of Kineton in the County of Warwickshire 1991

Register of Interests

5: Land and property

Holiday home, Cornwall, from which rental income is received

10: Non-financial interests (b)

President of Governors, Saint Martins School, Solihull