Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 7291
boswellte@parliament.uk
Biography
Electoral history
Contested Rugby February 1974 general election. MP (Conservative) for Daventry 1987-2010
Parliamentary career
PPS to Peter Lilley as Financial Secretary to Treasury 1989-90;
Assistant Government Whip 1990-92;
Government Whip 1992;
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education 1992-95;
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1995-97;
Opposition Spokesperson for:
the Treasury 1997,
Trade and Industry 1997-99,
Education 1999-2001,
Work and Pensions (People with Disabilities) 2001;
Shadow Minister for:
Education and Skills (People with Disabilities) 2002-03,
Home, Constitutional and Legal Affairs 2003-04,
Home Affairs 2004,
Work and Pensions 2004-06,
and Welfare Reform 2004-05;
PPS to Francis Maude as Chairman, Conservative Party 2005-07
Lords career
Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees 2012-
Party groups
Chair, Daventry Constituency Conservative Association 1979-83;
Acting Chairman, Milton Keynes Conservatives 2009-10
Select committees
Member: Innovation, Universities[, Science] and Skills/Science and Technology 2007-10
Councils, public bodies
Member, Agriculture and Food Research Council 1988-90;
DL, Northamptonshire 2010-
Political interests
Agriculture, finance, European Union, education, equalities
Countries of interest
Europe
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Boswell of Aynho, of Aynho in the County of Northamptonshire 2010
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
In receipt of salary as Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, House of Lords
4: Shareholdings (b)
Reckitt Benckiser plc (household products)
Tesco plc (food retailing)
Target Corporation Inc (US retailer)
BASF (German; chemicals)
5: Land and property
Income is received as a Partner (with wife) from land and family farming business trading as EN & TE Boswell at Lower Aynho Grounds, Banbury, with separate rentals from cottages and grazing
Land at Great Leighs, Essex (one-third holding, with balance held by family interests), from which rental income is received
House in Banbury owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received
Lower Aynho Grounds Farm, Northants/Oxon; this property is owned personally by the Member and not the Partnership
10: Non-financial interests (b)
Independent Governor, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
Co-opted Governor, Northampton University
Director, Foundation for Management Education
Governor, Tudor Hall School, near Banbury
10: Non-financial interests (c)
Chair, Victoria County History Trust for Northamptonshire
10: Non-financial interests (d)
Trustee, Conservative and Unionist Agents' Superannuation Fund
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Chair, Friends of Torres Vedras
Patron attending Board meetings, Daventry & South Northants Home-Start
President, National Energy Action
Trustee, Peterborough Cathedral Development and Preservation Trust
Vice President, County Trust (bridging gap between urban and rural communities)
Trustee, Wyndham Place Charlemagne Trust (registered charity)
Friend, Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme