Lord Elton

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 3165
Fax: 020 7219 0785

Biography

Electoral history

Contested (Conservative) Loughborough 1966 and 1970 general elections

Lords career

First entered House of Lords 1973; Opposition Whip 1974-76; Opposition Spokesperson 1976-79; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for: Northern Ireland 1979-81, Department of Health and Social Security 1981-82, Home Office 1982-84; Minister of State: Home Office 1984-85, Department of the Environment 1985-86; Deputy Chairman of Committees 1997-2007; Elected hereditary peer 1999-; Deputy Speaker 1999-2008; Contested Lord Speaker election 2006

Party groups

Deputy Chair, Association of Conservative Peers 1988-93

Councils, public bodies

Member, Boyd Commission (South Rhodesia Independence Elections) 1979; Chair, Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association 1987-90; Member, Panel on Takeovers and Mergers 1988-90; Chair, Inquiry into Discipline in Schools (Elton Report) 1988; Vice-President, Institute of Trading Standards Administration 1990-; Chair, Quality and Standards Committee, City and Guilds of London Institute 1999-2004

Political interests

Juvenile justice, education

Countries of interest

Norway

Register of Interests

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Licensed Lay Minister, Anglican Diocese of Oxford