Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6424
Fax: 020 7219 5979
harrisonlh@parliament.uk
Biography
Lords career
Departmental Liaison Peer for Northern Ireland 1999-2001
Councils, public bodies
Councillor, Cheshire County Council 1981-90:
Deputy Chair, North West Tourist Board 1986-89;
Vice-President, Association of County Councils 1990-97
International bodies
Member:
Inter-Parliamentary Union 1999-,
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association 2007-
Political interests
Small businesses, tourism, monetary union, children, European Union
Countries of interest
Commonwealth, EU member and applicant countries, USA
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Harrison, of Chester in the County of Cheshire 1999
Register of Interests
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Armenia, 18-21 April 2011, with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Armenia; all costs met by Armenian Parliament and British-Armenian Friendship Society
Visit to Vietnam, 18-20 September 2011, with All Party Parliamentary Group on Vietnam, using funds from sponsors previously declared (including University of Central Lancashire and Premier Oil), as guest of Government of Vietnam; other funding was provided by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and certain ground travel and hospitality was provided by British Embassy in Hanoi and Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City
Visit to Cyprus, 15-19 December 2011; costs of visit met by Government of North Cyprus
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Trustee, Genesis Initiative (Business Senate for Enterprise)
President, Chester and District Parkinson's Disease Society
Vice President, Cheshire Landscape Trust
Vice President, WIN (Wirral Investment Network)