Donald Michael Ellison Foster,Baron Foster of Bath,is a British politician and life peer who served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Comptroller of the Household from 2013 to 2015. A member of the Liberal Democrats,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath from 1992 to 2015.
Timothy Eric Boswell,Baron Boswell of Aynho is a British politician who was the Conservative MP for Daventry from 1987 until he stood down at the 2010 general election,after which he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer.
David Charles Waddington,Baron Waddington,was a British politician and barrister.
David Leonard Watts,Baron Watts is a British politician and life peer who served in the Blair and Brown governments as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2005 to 2010 and chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party as a backbencher from 2012 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015.
Andrew Guy Tyrie,Baron Tyrie,is a British politician and former chair of the Competition and Markets Authority. A member of the Conservative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester from 1997 to 2017. Tyrie was previously a special adviser at HM Treasury and chair of the Treasury Select Committee,having taken up the role on 10 June 2010. He was described by Donald Macintyre of The Independent in 2013 as "the most powerful backbencher in the House of Commons",and by The Economist as a liberal conservative.
Angela Evans Smith,Baroness Smith of Basildon,,is a British politician and life peer serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal since 2024. A member of the Labour and Co-operative Parties,she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basildon from 1997 to 2010.
The Chief Whip is a political leader whose task is to enforce the whipping system,which aims to ensure that legislators who are members of a political party attend and vote on legislation as the party leadership prescribes.
Ronald Timothy Renton,Baron Renton of Mount Harry,was a British Conservative Party politician.
Timothy John Robert Kirkhope,Baron Kirkhope of Harrogate is a British lawyer and politician who previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber for the Conservative Party. After serving for ten years as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North East,he was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999. Between December 2004 and November 2010 he was leader of the Conservative delegation for a total of six years. He was the chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel's Europe grouping,the European Conservatives Spokesman on Justice and Home Affairs,and a member of the European Parliament's U.S Delegation. In 2016,he was created a life peer.
In the United Kingdom there are at least six Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury,serving as a commission for the ancient office of Treasurer of the Exchequer. The board consists of the First Lord of the Treasury,the Second Lord of the Treasury,and four or more junior lords acting as whips in the House of Commons to whom this title is usually applied.
David Arthur Russell Howell,Baron Howell of Guildford,is a British Conservative Party politician,journalist,and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher,Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. He has served as Chair of the House of Lords International Relations Committee since May 2016. Along with William Hague,Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke,he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who continued to hold high office in the party,being its deputy leader in the House of Lords until 2010. His daughter,Frances,was married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer,George Osborne.
David George Hanson,Baron Hanson of Flint,,is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Minister of State for the Home Office since July 2024. He previously served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Delyn from 1992 to 2019. He held several ministerial offices in the Blair and Brown governments,serving in the Home Office,the Ministry of Justice,the Wales Office,the Northern Ireland Office and the Whips' Office. Hanson sat on Ed Miliband's opposition front bench as a shadow treasury minister,and later the shadow immigration minister.
Michael Walton Bates,Baron Bates is a British Conservative Party politician. He has served in the House of Lords since 2008,having previously represented the constituency of Langbaurgh in the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997.
Mark Noel Foster Robinson is a retired Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
John Robert Louis Lee,Baron Lee of Trafford,DL is a British Liberal Democrat politician,who has sat as a life peer since 2006.
Richard Mark Newby,Baron Newby is a British politician who has been the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords since September 2016. He served as Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords,as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 2012 and 2015,as and Liberal Democrat Chief Whip in the House of Lords from 2012 to 2016.
The UK Shadow Cabinet was appointed by Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith. Following his initial appointments in September 2001 Smith managed three reshuffles before his resignation as leader in November 2003.
The 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in two supplements to The London Gazette of 1 August 1997 and marked the May 1997 resignation of the Prime Minister,John Major.
The 1992 Dissolution Honours List was gazetted on 5 June 1992 following the advice of the Prime Minister,John Major.
Alan Mak is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Science,Innovation and Technology since November 2024 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Havant since 2015. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Industry and Economic Security and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Investment Security Unit from March to July 2024.
