Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6611
gardnert@parliament.uk
Biography
Electoral history
Contested (Conservative) Blackburn 1970 and North Cornwall February 1974 general elections
Lords career
Deputy Chair of Committees 1999-2002;
Deputy Speaker 1999-2002
Councils, public bodies
Member:
Inner London Executive Council NHS 1966-71,
Standing Dental Advisory Committee for England and Wales 1968-76,
Industrial Tribunal Panel for London 1974-97;
Councillor, Westminster City Council 1968-78:
Lady Mayoress of Westminster 1987-88;
Councillor, GLC 1970-86;
JP, North Westminster 1971-97;
Member, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea Area Health Authority 1974-81;
Department of Employment's Advisory Committee on Women's Employment 1980-89;
North Thames Gas Consumer Council 1980-82;
Member:
General Dental Council 1984-86, 1987-91,
London Electricity Board 1984-90;
Vice-chair, North East Thames Regional Health Authority 1990-94;
Trustee, Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety 1992-98;
Vice-President, National House Building Council 1992-99;
Chair, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 1994-97
International bodies
British chair, European Union of Women 1978-82;
UK representative on the UN Status of Women Commission 1982-88;
Member, Executive Committee, Inter-Parliamentary Union, British Group -1997, 2008-;
UK representative to Euro-Mediterranean Women's Forum 2000-02
Political interests
Transport, housing, health, planning, energy
Countries of interest
Commonwealth, Latin America, Scandinavia
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baroness Gardner of Parkes, of Southgate in Greater London and of Parkes in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia 1981
Register of Interests
5: Land and property
London property let at commercial rents
7: Overseas visits
Visit to Vietnam, 17-24 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