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Economic Affairs Committee (House Of Lords)
The Economic Affairs Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace .... It has a broad remit "to consider economic affairs and business affairs". Membership As of January 2025, the membership of the committee is as follows: Sub-committee The Finance Bill Sub-Committee is a sub-committee of the Economic Affairs Committee. It was first appointed in September 2018 and has a remit to consider the Finance Bill. Membership As of December 2023, the members of the committee are: References External linksEconomic Affairs Committee [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Select Committee (United Kingdom)
In British politics, parliamentary select committees are cross-party groups of MPs or Lords which investigate specific issues or scrutinise the work of the Government of the United Kingdom. They can be appointed from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, from the House of Lords, or as a Joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, joint committee of Parliament drawn from both. Committees may be constituted as "sessional" committees – i.e. be near-permanent – or as "ad-hoc" committees with a specific deadline by which to complete their work, after which they cease to exist. House of Commons select committees are generally responsible for overseeing the work of government departments and agencies, whereas Lords select committees look at general issues, such as the British constitution, constitution or the economy. Select committees are also one of Parliament's mechanisms for holding the private sector to account. Following the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall
Edward Timothy Razzall, Baron Razzall, (born 12 June 1943), is a British Liberal Democrat politician and parliamentarian. Early life He was the son of Humphrey Razzall, a Liberal Party member who stood as Liberal Parliamentary Candidate for Scarborough and Whitby in the 1945 general election. Razzall attended St Paul's School, London, before going to Worcester College, Oxford, representing the university at cricket in 1964. Career Razzall qualified as a solicitor in 1969 and worked for Frere Cholmeley (later Frere Cholmeley Bischoff), becoming a partner in 1973, and chief executive in 1990 before leaving in 1995 to set up his own corporate finance business (Argonaut Associates). Frere Cholmeley Bischoff encountered financial difficulties and dissolved shortly after his departure, for which some blame was attributed to Razzall. In 1974, he was elected as a councillor for Mortlake ward in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, which he represented for 24 years. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Valentine, Baroness Valentine
Josephine Clare Valentine, Baroness Valentine (born 8 December 1958) is a Crossbench member of the British House of Lords. Career Baroness Valentine's career spans the City, industry, campaigning and regeneration. She now has a portfolio career. She is currently working for Business in the Community, seeking to improve economic and social outcomes for some of Britain's “forgotten” towns. Her non-executive roles include vice chair of UCL, non-executive director of Value and Indexed Property Income Trust and chair of Heathrow Southern Railway. Lady Valentine previously ran London First for many years. She joined the organisation in 1997 as Managing Director, becoming Chief Executive in 2003. London First's mission is to make London the best place in the world in which to do business. Its members include leading retailers, investment banks and property companies. Whilst at London First, Lady Valentine was instrumental in the creation of Teach First, campaigning for Crossrail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilf Stevenson, Baron Stevenson Of Balmacara
Robert Wilfrid "Wilf" Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara (born 19 April 1947) is a Labour Party life peer and former adviser to Gordon Brown. Early life Stevenson is the son of James Alexander Stevenson and Elizabeth Anne Stevenson (née Macrae). He was born with hypospadias, which he talked about in a parliamentary debate in 2018. Education Stevenson was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at the time an independent boarding school for boys (now a co-educational day school). He then went on to study at University College, Oxford, obtaining an MA in Chemistry, and later at Napier Polytechnic (now Edinburgh Napier University), where he received an accountancy diploma (ACCA). Career Stevenson began his career as a Research Officer at the Edinburgh University Students' Association (1970–74). He then spent thirteen years as a secretary at Napier College of Commerce and Technology in Edinburgh, before becoming Deputy Director (1987–88) and then Director (1988–97) of the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Rooker
Jeffrey William Rooker, Baron Rooker (born 5 June 1941) is a British politician and life peer who served as a government minister from 1997 to 2008. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Perry Barr from 1974 to 2001. Raised and educated in Birmingham, Rooker worked as a production engineer in the city before lecturing in the subject at Lanchester Polytechnic. He studied at Aston University and the University of Warwick; and he eventually gained a postgraduate degree in industrial relations. After unsuccessfully attempting to be elected to Birmingham City Council in 1966, he was elected to the House of Commons at the February 1974 general election and joined the government after the Labour victory at the 1997 general election as Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Rooker did not seek re-election as an MP at the 2001 general election and was immediately created a life peer where he continued to se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monroe Palmer, Baron Palmer Of Childs Hill
Monroe Edward Palmer, Baron Palmer of Childs Hill, (born 30 November 1938), is a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer in the House of Lords. Born on 30 November 1938, Palmer was Liberal Party treasurer between 1971 and 1983. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1982 New Year Honours. He contested the Hendon South constituency at the 1979, 1983 and 1987 general elections for the Liberal party, and was joint treasurer of the Liberal parliamentary party from 1977 to 1983. Following the creation of the Liberal Democrats he contested Hastings and Rye at the 1992 and 1997 general elections. Palmer first stood as a candidate for Barnet London Borough Council in Childs Hill ward in 1968, first elected 1986, stood down in 1994, returned 1998 and finally retired in 2014. He was chair of its audit committee of a council with a £500 million net annual expenditure. On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Palmer would be created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum
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Sebastian Grigg, 4th Baron Altrincham
Edward Sebastian Grigg, 4th Baron Altrincham (born 18 December 1965), is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords. Early life Grigg was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. Business career After working at Goldman Sachs, Grigg became head of investment banking at Credit Suisse UK in 2007. He advised HM Treasury on the recapitalisations of the Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds in October 2008 as part of a Credit Suisse team working from a makeshift office in one of the Treasury's corridors. He left Credit Suisse in 2016. He was a non-executive director of The Co-operative Bank from 2021 to 2025, representing shareholders, including Silverpoint and Goldentree, through to the sale of The Co-operative Bank to the Coventry Building Society in 2025. Political career Grigg unsuccessfully stood for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons for the Heywood and Middleton (UK Parliament constituency), Heywood and Middleton consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Leigh, Baron Leigh Of Hurley
Howard Darryl Leigh, Baron Leigh of Hurley (born 3 April 1959 He was 2000–2005 Treasurer of the Conservative Party; He is since 2005 Alt-Treasurer (Senior Treasurer). /sup> He is a member of the Executive Board of the Conservative Friends of Israel. On 16 September 2013 he was elevated formally to Life Peer; he bears the title ''Baron Leigh'' ''of Hurley'' in the Royal County of Berkshire. He was chairman and is currently President of Westminster Synagogue. On 11 July 2015 the Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson Robert Owen Biggs Wilson (born 4 January 1965) is an English politician and political author. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Reading East parliamentary constituency in the 2005 general election, being re-elected in ..., appointed Lord Leigh to take part in a review of the self-regulation of fundraising of charities, which was published on 21 September 2015. Lord Leigh is Vice-President of the Jewish Leadership Council and the Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Wolf, Baroness Wolf Of Dulwich
Alison Margaret Wolf, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, (née Potter, born 31 October 1949) is a British economist, academic, and life peer. She is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London; Director of the International Centre for University Policy Research, King's Policy Institute; and Director of the university's MSc program in Public Sector Policy and Management. Her latest book, ''The XX Factor'', was published in 2013. Early life and education Alison Potter was born on 31 of October 1949. She was educated at Oxford High School, an all-girls private school in Oxford, England. She went on to study at the University of Neuchatel and the University of Oxford as an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford. Career Her early career was spent in the United States as a policy analyst for the government. She then worked many years at the Institute of Education of the University of London where she was guest professor. She is a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumi Verjee
Rumi Verjee, Baron Verjee, (born 1957), is a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. Born in Uganda, Rumi moved to the UK as a child before studying at Downing College, Cambridge. Early life Rumi Verjee was born in Uganda and spent his early childhood in Kenya before coming to Britain. Many of the Verjee family assets were seized under Idi Amin's regime in the expulsion of Indians in Uganda in 1972. Education He attended Haileybury College, Hertford, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA in law, before being called to the Bar from Middle Temple. Business Aged 27, Verjee approached Tom Monaghan at a conference in the US, and persuaded him to sell the franchising rights to Domino's Pizza in the UK. Verjee launched the chain in Britain and it now employs over 20,000 people in the UK. Verjee sold his stake in the firm in 1989, and went on to oversee the development of the Brompton Hospital site. From 1993 until 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull
Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull, (born 21 January 1945) is a British politician and civil servant who served as the head of Her Majesty's Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary between 2002 and 2005, when he was succeeded by Sir Gus O'Donnell. He now sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Education Turnbull was educated at Enfield Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied economics. Career Turnbull was appointed an Overseas Development Institute Fellow in 1968 and was posted to work as an economist in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Foreign Trade in Lusaka, Zambia. Turnbull served as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major (1988–1992). He served as Defra permanent secretary then Permanent Secretary to the Treasury (1998–2002), the latter traditionally the second-highest-ranking Civil Service post, before succeeding to the highest-ranking post. The two most senior civil service roles at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
