Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 8501
newbyr@parliament.uk
Biography
Lords career
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for:
Trade and Industry 1998-2000,
The Treasury 1998-2010;
Sponsored Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012;
Deputy Chief Whip (Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard) 2012-
Party groups
Deputy Chair, Liberal Democrat General Election Team 1995-97;
Liberal Democrat Campaigns and Communications Committee 1995-2006;
Chief of Staff to Charles Kennedy as Leader of the Liberal Democrats 1999-2006
Political interests
Europe, regional development
Countries of interest
Eastern Caribbean, Pakistan, South Africa
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Newby, of Rothwell in the County of West Yorkshire 1997
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
Chairman, Live Consulting Ltd (acts as consultant and project manager in field of corporate social responsibility; Live Consulting Ltd receives payment for the Member's consultancy work on corporate responsibility issues for FTI Consulting, Inc)
Chairman, Live Sport CIC (acts as project manager for education programmes in UK and internationally which use sport as a catalyst for education and personal development)
4: Shareholdings (a)
Live Consulting Ltd
5: Land and property
Flat in Lambeth owned jointly with wife, from which rental income is received
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Director, Sport for Life Inc (Barbados)
Director, Sport for Life Trinidad and Tobago
Director, Sport for Life St Vincent and the Grenadines
Trustee, Sport for Life Pakistan (programme for children and young people that combines education and sport; all Sport for Life entities are not-for-profit companies or trusts)
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Trustee, North West University UK Trust (the University is in South Africa)
Trustee, Coltstaple Trust
Trustee, IDS (International Development through Sport) UK
Chair, Sport at The Prince's Trust
Chair, IDS (International Development through Sport)
Member, NCVO Advisory Council
Member, Advisory Board, CentreForum