The Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill | |
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Minister of State for Rail | |
Assumed office 8 July 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
Preceded by | Huw Merriman |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 17 November 2022 Life peerage | |
Commissioner of Transport for London | |
In office 1 February 2006 –24 September 2015 | |
Preceded by | Robert Kiley |
Succeeded by | Mike Brown |
Personal details | |
Born | Peter Gerard Hendy 19 March 1953 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour (since 2024) [1] |
Other political affiliations | Crossbench (2022–2024) |
Occupation | Managing Director,CentreWest:(1994–1997) Deputy Director,FirstGroup:(1997–2001) Commissioner of Transport for London:(2006–2015) Chairman,Network Rail (2015–present) |
Peter Gerard Hendy,Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill, CBE (born 19 March 1953),is a British transport executive and politician who has served as Minister of State for Rail since July 2024. [2] [3]
Hendy is the younger son of Jack Hendy and the Honourable Mary Best,youngest daughter of Philip George Best,6th Baron Wynford. [4] His brother is John Hendy,Baron Hendy KC.
Hendy was educated at Latymer Upper School [5] and the University of Leeds,where he graduated in Economics and Geography in 1975. [6]
Hendy started his career in the public transport industry in 1975 as a London Transport graduate trainee. [7] He moved up the career ladder,eventually taking on the role of managing director of CentreWest London Buses Ltd in 1989,managing it under London Transport ownership. [7]
In 1994,he led CentreWest through a management buyout with staff involvement,and subsequent expansion. After the takeover of CentreWest by FirstGroup in 1997,Hendy became Deputy Director UK Bus for FirstGroup,responsible for bus operations in London and southern England,bus development,and the operation of Croydon Tramlink. [7] [8] He also became a director of New World First Bus in Hong Kong. [7] [8]
In 2001,he was appointed to the position of managing director of Surface Transport for Transport for London (TfL),under Ken Livingstone's mayoralty of London. [7] During this period,bus patronage in London grew substantially. [9] On 1 February 2006,he took up the position of Commissioner of Transport for London. [8] He continued in post after the election of Boris Johnson as Mayor of London in 2008.
During the London 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games,Hendy chaired the 2012 Games Transport Board,which worked with LOCOG,transport operators,local authorities and others to ensure transportation of athletes,officials,staff,media and spectators across London. [7] He was subsequently knighted for his work at the Games. [10]
In July 2015,Hendy left the position of Commissioner,replaced on an interim basis by Mike Brown (the Managing Director of London Underground and London Rail). [11]
In July 2015 he was appointed chair of Network Rail by the then Secretary of State for Transport,Patrick McLoughlin. [12] In June 2023,he was reappointed to the role to serve for a further two years. [13]
On 8 July 2024 he was appointed to Keir Starmer's new Labour government as a minister of state in the Department for Transport. [14] [15]
Between 2013 and 2015,Hendy was the chairman of International Association of Public Transport. [16]
In July 2017 he was appointed chair of the London Legacy Development Corporation,by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan,which is developing the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. [17]
In July 2019 he was appointed by the then Prime Minister Theresa May as a trustee of the Science Museum Group which incorporates the National Railway Museum in York. [16] Hendy is also an independent trustee of the London Transport Museum. [18] In March 2023,Hendy was appointed chairman of the Heritage Railway Association. [18]
In June 2020,he was appointed chair of the Union Connectivity Review. The terms of reference were published on 3 October 2020. [19] The review was published on November 2021. [20]
He is also the Honorary Chairman of the London Bus Museum. [21]
Hendy was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours "for services to Public Transport and to the community in London." [22] Following the successful operation of transport during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games he was knighted for services to transport and the community in the 2013 New Year Honours. [10] [23]
Hendy has been awarded the following honorary degrees:Doctor of Science by City,University of London in 2010;Doctor of Engineering by the University of Bath in 2014;Doctor of Laws by the University of Leeds in 2015;and Doctor of Letters by Queen Mary University of London in 2018.
It was announced on 14 October 2022,that as part of the 2022 Special Honours,Hendy would receive a life peerage. [24] On 17 November 2022,Hendy was created Baron Hendy of Richmond Hill,of Imber in the County of Wiltshire . [25]
Hendy is married to Sue Pendle,a human resources consultant;the couple,who live in Richmond,London,have two children.
Hendy owns two roadworthy London AEC Routemaster buses. He is part of the group of organisers of Imberbus, [26] the 23A scheduled bus service that runs once a year to the isolated and abandoned Wiltshire village of Imber,which is surrounded by military firing ranges on Salisbury Plain and is normally closed to the public. In 2019,28 double-decker buses operated the route at 15-minute intervals from Warminster station. [27]
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