The Lord Taylor of Holbeach | |
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Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms | |
In office 6 August 2014 –24 July 2019 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
Preceded by | The Baroness Anelay of St John's |
Succeeded by | The Lord Ashton of Hyde |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information | |
In office 4 September 2012 –6 August 2014 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Lynne Featherstone |
Succeeded by | The Lord Bates |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Resource Management,the Local Environment and Environmental Science | |
In office 16 September 2011 –4 September 2012 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Lord Henley |
Succeeded by | The Lord de Mauley |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 5 June 2006 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 November 1943 |
Political party | Conservative |
John Derek Taylor,Baron Taylor of Holbeach, CBE PC FRSA [1] (born 12 November 1943) is a British Conservative politician and former Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords.
Taylor is the son of Percy Otto Taylor and Ethel Brocklehurst. He was educated at Holbeach Primary School in Holbeach,Lincolnshire,St. Felix School in Felixstowe,and at Bedford School in the county town of Bedfordshire.[ citation needed ]
He served on the executive committee of the East Midlands Conservative Council from 1966 to 1998,and contested the Parliamentary constituency of Chesterfield in the general elections of February and October 1974. He later held many roles within the voluntary wing of the Conservative Party and was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992 for political service. [2] He served as chairman of the National Conservative Convention from 2000 to 2003. [3] He was created a life peer as Baron Taylor of Holbeach,of South Holland in the county of Lincolnshire,on 31 May 2006. [4] He is an honorary member of Conservative Friends of Poland. [5] Taylor was appointed junior minister at the Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs in September 2011, [6] and moved in September 2012 to a ministerial post at the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information. [7] [8]
On 6 August 2014,in a mini-reshuffle prompted by the resignation of Baroness Warsi,Lord Taylor was appointed to the post of Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and chief whip in the House of Lords, [9] continuing in that office until the end of the Second May ministry.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Lord Taylor of Holbeach [...] will replace Conservative peer Lord Henley as a junior minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Lord Taylor of Holbeach has praised the waste industry after leaving his post as recycling minister at Defra as part of the cabinet reshufle. The minister, who has been parliamentary under secretary of state at Defra since September 2011 and is well regarded by the waste sector, has been promoted to a new ministerial role within the Home Office.