Baroness Buscombe

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5356
Fax: 020 7219 1942
buscombep@parliament.uk

Biography

Electoral history

Contested (Conservative) Slough 1997 general election

Lords career

Opposition Spokesperson for: Law Officers and Lord Chancellor's Department/Legal Affairs 1999-2005, Social Security 1999-2001, Trade and Industry 1999-2000, 2001; Cabinet Office 2000-01, Home Office 2001-02, Culture, Media and Sport 2002-05, Education and Skills 2005-07

Party groups

Vice-chair, Conservative Party 1997-99; President, Slough Conservative Association 1997-2001; Patron, Inns of Court School of Law Conservative Association

Councils, public bodies

Councillor, South Oxfordshire District Council 1995-99; Chair, Press Complaints Commission 2009-11

International bodies

Foundation for International and Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution; Member Inter-Parliamentary Union

Political interests

Law and order, trade and industry, legal affairs

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Buscombe, of Goring in the County of Oxfordshire 1998

Register of Interests

1: Directorships

Non-executive Director, Veolia Water Central Limited

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Member, Fundraising Committee of PALS (Partnership for Active Leisure Scheme) (charity for physically disabled children)