Lord Davies of Stamford

Contact details

Westminster

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

Biography

Electoral history

Contested (Conservative) Birmingham Ladywood 1977 by-election. MP for Stamford and Spalding 1987-97, for Grantham and Stamford 1997-2010 (Conservative 1987 to June 2007, Labour 2007-10)

Parliamentary career

PPS to Angela Rumbold as Minister of State: Department of Education and Science 1988-90, Home Office 1990-91; Shadow Minister for Pensions 1998-99; Shadow Paymaster General 1999-2000; Shadow Minister for Defence 2000-01; Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 2001-03; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Defence Equipment and Support), Ministry of Defence 2008-10

Select committees

Member: Standards and Privileges 1995-97, Standards and Privileges 1997-98, Treasury 1997-98, European Scrutiny 1998, International Development 2003-07, Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills 2007-09, Regulatory Reform 2007-10

Political interests

Defence, trade and industry, finance, agriculture, health, welfare, pensions, overseas development

Countries of interest

EU, Russia, USA

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Davies of Stamford, of Stamford in the County of Lincolnshire 2010

Register of Interests

4: Shareholdings (b)

Vinci SA (concession and construction group)

5: Land and property

Flat in Flaine, France