Lord Heseltine

Contact details

Westminster

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

Biography

Electoral history

Contested Gower 1959 and Coventry North 1964 general elections. MP (Conservative) for Tavistock 1966-74, for Henley February 1974-2001

Parliamentary career

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport June-October 1970; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment 1970-72; Minister for Aerospace and Shipping, Department of Trade and Industry 1972-74; Opposition Spokesperson for: Industry 1974-76, The Environment 1976-79; Secretary of State for: the Environment 1979-83, Defence 1983-86, the Environment 1990-92; President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1992-95; Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State 1995-97

Party groups

Chair, Conservative Mainstream Group; President, Conservative Group for Europe; Contested Conservative Party leadership, November 1990; Patron, Tory Reform Group

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baron Heseltine, of Thenford in the County of Northamptonshire 2001

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Haymarket Publishing Group

4: Shareholdings (a)

Haymarket Publishing Group

10: Non-financial interests (a)

Chairman, Regional Growth Fund

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Vice President, Royal Horticultural Society