Baroness Blackstone

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5409
blackstonet@parliament.uk

Biography

Lords career

Opposition Spokesperson for: Education and Science 1988-96, Treasury Matters 1990-91; Principal Opposition Spokesperson for Education and Science 1990-92; Opposition Spokesperson for Trade and Industry 1992-96; Principal Opposition Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs 1992-97; Minister of State and Government Spokesperson for: Department for Education and Employment (Minister of State for Education and Employment) 1997-2001, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Minister of State for the Arts) 2001-03

Councils, public bodies

Chair, BBC General Advisory Council 1987-91; Chair and founder member, Institute for Public Policy Research 1988-97; Chair, British Library 2010-

Political interests

Education, social policy, foreign affairs, arts

Countries of interest

France, India, Palestine, USA

Name, style and title

Raised to the peerage as Baroness Blackstone, of Stoke Newington in the County of Greater London 1987

Register of Interests

2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

Chairman, British Library Board

Chair, Orbit Group (housing associations)

Chairman, Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust