"established the Press Complaints Commission and its Code of Practice. The first high-profile case handled by the PCC was brought by HRH The Duke of York who claimed that the press were invading the privacy of his small children. The complaint was upheld. The Commission's first chairman was Lord McGregor of Durris. He was succeeded by Lord Wakeham in 1995. He resigned in January 2002 after concerns over a conflict of interest when the Enron Corporation collapsed. He had been a member of the company's audit committee. Sir Christopher Meyer was appointed in 2002 following a brief period of interim"
"the only democratic members of the House. In 1999 a Royal Commission was appointed, under Lord Wakeham, to examine proposals for Lords Reform and make recommendations. It published its report (See Wakeham Report) in 2000 with 132 recommendations of which the main were: In a debate in the House of Lords on 7 March 2000, Baroness Jay expressed the Government's broad acceptance of the Commission's report: The Government accept the principles underlying the main elements of the Royal Commission's proposals on the future role and structure of this House, and will act on them. That is, we agree that the"
"Wakeham Report The Wakeham Report, published in 2000, was the report of a Royal Commission headed by Lord Wakeham, concerning reform of the United Kingdom's House of Lords. (See also Lords Reform.) The Commission explicitly did not recommend a wholly or predominantly elected chamber, and also rejected the idea of random selection of members. Instead, the following recommendations were made: The intention of the report was to create a second chamber that would be an effective check on government power, while simultaneously making it more accountable to the electorate. At the time the report was written, the Prime Minister recommended"
"1993. In 1999 he was appointed to the Royal Commission (chaired by John Wakeham) investigating a possible reorganisation of the House of Lords (that group produced the Wakeham Report.) He retired on 2 June 2006, his 70th birthday. In the week previous to his retirement, on 26 May 2006, Downing Street announced that he was to be made a life peer, and he was gazetted as Baron Harries of Pentregarth, of Ceinewydd in the County of Dyfed on 30 June 2006. He sits as a cross-bencher. On 4 August 2006, he was appointed to the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved"
"in 1983 and served as a party spokesman on Treasury matters, although he was not offered a government post in 1997. As a supporter of devolution, he chose to move to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999, and stood down from the UK Parliament in 2001. In the Assembly he became increasingly known as a maverick. In 2000, he was elected as Deputy Presiding Officer against the candidate preferred by the Labour leadership. This move, and his frequent criticisms of the Labour-led Wrexham County Borough led to his deselection as the Labour Party's candidate for the National Assembly elections"
"the Parliaments. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 1994. He retired at the beginning of 1997. From 1998 to June 2009, he was a Special Lecturer in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2003. In 1999 he served as a member of the Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords, chaired by Lord Wakeham, whose Report was published in January 2000. From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the Commission on Powers and Electoral"
"though some functions such as emergency services and public transport were taken over by joint boards. It is said one reason for the abolition was because a Labour/ Liberal Democrats coalition had taken overall control of the council in the 1993 election. It was said that Wokingham MP John Redwood was one of the driving forces for its abolition to remove a rival local authority. Another motive for the abolition could be ironically ascribed to the council’s success in contracting out its services to smaller authorities and private contractors. A recent former chairman of Buckinghamshire County Council described a table"
"the destructive route of the Channel tunnel rail link. He became leader of the opposition Conservative group in 1993 and leader of the Council in 1997, retaining the post until 2005. While leader of Kent County Council, Bruce-Lockhart became a controversial figure on the national political stage for his introduction of a local version of the recently repealed anti-gay Section 28 legislation. In July 2004, having been vice-chairman for two years, Lord Bruce-Lockhart succeeded Sir Jeremy Beecham to become Chairman of the Local Government Association, following the Conservatives becoming the largest political group in the Association as the result of"
"from 2001 to 2005, and was a Governor of Lackham College between 1986 and 1998. From 2004 to 2012 he was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, retiring at the age of seventy-five, to be succeeded by Mrs Sarah Rose Troughton, a cousin of H. M. the Queen. As Lord Lieutenant he was also custos rotulorum, and his public duties included overseeing arrangements for visits to Wiltshire by members of the Royal Family and escorting them; representing H. M. the Queen at events, and presenting awards and medals on her behalf; liaising with the Wiltshire units of the Royal Navy, Army and"
"John Denham (politician) John Yorke Denham (born 15 July 1953) is an English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen from 1992 to 2015. He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and as the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010. He was the Shadow Business Secretary in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet from 2010 to 2011, when he announced that he would be standing down as an MP at the next election, and retired from the front-bench in"
"1992, before becoming Chief of Staff at Naval Home Command in 1993. He went on to be Director-General of Naval Personnel Strategy at the Ministry of Defence before being made Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (and, concurrently, President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich) in 1995. His last appointments were as Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet in 1997 and then Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment Capability) in 1999 before retiring in 2002. In retirement he became UK President of EADS, the defence contractor. Since January 2003 he has served as editor of ""The Naval Review"". Jeremy Blackham Vice Admiral"
"the nature and extent of these recommendations that Mr Justice Jackson later described the report as """"the whirlwind which hit the construction industry""."" In 1997, he was elected as a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. After standing down from parliament he has held numerous positions in the construction industry including chairman of the Construction Industry Training Board (2002–10), chairman of ConstructionSkills (2003–10), chairman, then deputy chairman of Willmott Dixon Limited (1999–2002, 2002–09), chairman of Collaborative Working Centre Limited (since 2003) and deputy chairman of BIW Technologies (2000–05). Latham was knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours for"
"Paul Whitehouse (police officer) Paul Chapple Whitehouse (born September 26, 1944) was, between 1993 and 2001, the Chief Constable of Sussex Police, resigning after criticism by the Home Secretary, after a career starting in 1967. He was Chairman of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority from 2005-2011. In 1972 he founded Starehe UK, a charity which supports boys and girls at the two Starehe schools in Kenya. He was the vice-chairman of Nacro until the end of 2007 when he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of Sidcot School. From November 2011 to February 2014 he was Chair of Trustees"
"He was a trustee of the Natural History Museum, London from 1996–2005 and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 2003–2005. He was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1998–99. In September 2008, he was appointed Chair of NHS London, but resigned in May 2010 over the decision of the Cameron Ministry to halt planned hospital reorganisations in London. He was a member of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education that published an influential report in 1997. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering. He joined"
"Maidenhead in Berkshire. When that constituency was abolished for the 1997 Election, he was returned for the new constituency of Windsor. Trend was a frontbench spokesman and Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of the Conservative Party until 2000. He was Chairman of the party's International Office until September 2005, and has done extensive democracy building work in much of the former Soviet Union, and also in Africa. In December 2002, Trend agreed to repay £90,000 to the House of Commons, after accepting that he wrongly claimed the money as an allowance. In February 2003, Trend was found guilty of abusing"
"to BBC political correspondent Nick Assinder, ""opponents accused the commission of failing to come up with a single, simple recommendation and allowing the creation of chamber of ""Tony's Cronies"""". Some critics argued that the report would result in the Lords becoming in effect a weak advisory council for the House of Commons, which would lead to excessive conflict between the few elected members and the mainly appointed members. Due to the lack of consensus on its proposals, the report was never implemented. Wakeham Report The Wakeham Report, published in 2000, was the report of a Royal Commission headed by Lord"
"1983. As a result of the vacancy, the governing coalition of Labour, one Liberal Democrat and one Independent held exactly half of the seats in the Welsh Assembly, meaning that a gain for the opposition would have cost the government their majority. Carl Sargeant had been the Labour Party AM for the seat since the 2003 Assembly election, and held numerous junior and cabinet level positions before being appointed the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children in May 2016. Amidst the 2017 Westminster sexual scandals he was suspended from the Labour Party and removed from his position on 3 November"
"which provides dedicated teams of police officers and community support officers (CSO) who work with the community and partners at a local level He retired from the police in January 2005 to become Chief Executive of Centrex, which provided training and development to police forces in the UK and enforcement agencies throughout the world until it was abolished in March 2007. He rejoined the police service in January 2007 as Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He attempted to secure a package to receive both a retirement pension from Merseyside and a salary from the new post; he threatened legal"
"in an interview with ""The Independent"": ""This only became a story because the footballer is pursuing legal action against Twitter. In the UK, I think the system is going to have to change. People are going to realise that it is an infringement of the right to free speech. People are going to get sick of the rich and powerful being able to suppress things they do not want to get out."" Lord Wakeham, the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission between 1995 and 2001, described the situation surrounding privacy injunctions as ""a shambles"", and proposed that Parliament should amend"
"and Wellington, Old Bracknell, Owlsmoor, Priestwood and Garth, and Wildridings and Central, and the District of Wokingham wards of Finchampstead North, Finchampstead South, and Wokingham Without. Bracknell is based around the town of Bracknell and the Bracknell Forest authority. It is bordered by the constituencies of Wokingham, Maidenhead, Windsor, Surrey Heath, Aldershot, and North East Hampshire. From creation in 1997 until 2010, Bracknell's MP was Andrew MacKay of the Conservative Party, who represented the old seat of East Berkshire from 1983. On 14 May 2009, he resigned from his position as parliamentary aide to Cameron in the wake of a"
"planning unit. In 2006, following the reorganisation of GraceKennedy, he was appointed deputy chief executive officer of GraceKennedy Ltd. and chief executive officer of GK Investments. In September 2007, Wehby resigned from his positions at GraceKennedy Ltd. and its board of directors to serve for two years as Government Senator and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. Following his two-year stint in public service, he was reappointed to the board of directors of GraceKennedy Ltd. on his return to GraceKennedy on 5 October 2009. His current professional affiliations include chairman of the Taskforce on"
"a life peer as Baron Goodhart, of Youlbury in the County of Oxfordshire, on 23 October 1997. In the House of Lords, he served as a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in several capacities, usually relating to legal matters, including as the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Lord Chancellor. Before the House of Lords Act 1999, he campaigned to reform the Upper House, and later in his career expressed frustration at its undemocratic nature. He retired from the House of Lords on 15 May 2015. A devoted humanist, Goodhart was a longtime member of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, as well"
"expel all hereditary peers from the Upper House as a first step in Lords reform. As a part of a compromise, however, it agreed to permit 92 hereditary peers to remain until the reforms were complete. Thus all but 92 hereditary peers were expelled under the House of Lords Act 1999 (see below for its provisions), making the House of Lords predominantly an appointed house. Since 1999, however, no further reform has taken place. The Wakeham Commission proposed introducing a 20% elected element to the Lords, but this plan was widely criticised. A Joint Committee was established in 2001 to"
"by a willingness to distance himself from a number of aspects of UK Labour Party policy, particularly in relation to plans to introduce choice and competition into public services, which he has argued do not fit Welsh attitudes and values, and would not work effectively in a smaller and more rural country. In a speech given in Swansea to the National Centre for Public Policy in November 2002, Morgan stated his opposition to foundation hospitals (a UK Labour proposal), and referred to the ""clear red water"" separating policies in Wales and in Westminster. On 1 May 2003, Labour under Morgan's"
"of the Council of Durham University in 2001. He was also Chairman of ""GoSkills"", the transport Sector Skills Council, a body he had been instrumental in founding in 2004. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year Honours List for services to transport. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham. He resigned from most of his positions in July 2006 due to an undisclosed serious illness and died on 12 September 2006. It was only then reported that he had been seriously ill with a brain tumour since May"
"in 1990 he called Thatcher ""a cow"" in a leaked telephone conversation with his wife. His constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, when he was returned to the House of Commons for the new North Wiltshire constituency. He held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1997 general election. Needham was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, James Prior, between 1983 and 1984, and to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Patrick Jenkin, between 1984 and 1985. He served under Thatcher and later John Major as a Under-Secretary of State"
"2013, a redacted copy of the Jillings report was reportedly put up for auction on internet auction site eBay. After Wrexham Council threatened legal action, the item was removed from sale. In 1996, the then Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague, ordered a Tribunal of Inquiry into allegations of hundreds of cases of child abuse in care homes in former county council areas of Clwyd and Gwynedd between 1974 and 1990. Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, a retired High Court judge, was appointed to head the inquiry. The inquiry began in January 1997. The tribunal sat for 203 days, and"
"published on 4 February 2015, and found that the local authority's child sexual exploitation (CSE) team was poorly directed, suffered from excessive case loads, and did not share information. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, said the local authority was ""not fit for purpose"", and announced proposals to remove its control from the councillors and give it to a team of five appointed commissioners. The Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said that his party had ""let people down in Rotherham"". However, Casey's report was also heavily criticised by social work academics in Community Care in"
"whip, leaving no overall control. (**) Cllr Danny McCarthy (Cathedrals ward) defected from the Libdems to the Labour Party after the 2006 election. Cllr Ola Oyewunmi (Peckham ward) resigned the Labour whip in December 2009, and was admitted to the Liberal Democrat group in January 2010. Cllr Ade Lasaki (South Bermondsey ward) resigned the Lib Dem whip and was admitted to the Labour group in March 2010. Cllr Susan Elan Jones resigned as councillor for the Lane ward to stand for a parliamentary seat in Wales. Her resignation was after the date at which a by-election can be held, leaving"
"– from November 2011 until his election to parliament. In addition, he served as cabinet member for Community Services. Mackintosh was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum. Mackintosh was facing the prospect of being deselected by his local party, but he announced he would not stand in the June 2017 general election. In July 2014, while Leader of Northampton Borough Council, Mackintosh was responsible for the controversial sale of the Sekhemka statue which led to the Arts Council removing accreditation from the Northampton Museums. The Ancient Egyptian statue had been given by the Marquess of Northampton to Northampton"
"of public procurement. In August 2003 he was invited to lead a major review of efficiency across the whole UK public sector by Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown. The Gershon Review was completed in 2004/2005 and was intended to lead to significant savings in public spending by 2007/2008. He returned to the private sector after four years of public service, and is currently Chairman of Premier Farnell plc. and Symbian Ltd. He has also led a review of Ministerial and Royal Air Travel, is a non-executive director of HM Treasury, and a member of the councils of"
"2003 for €7,523. After a council investigation, Fahy reimbursed the council for €7,055 and apologised for any embarrassment. In March 2004, the Galway county manager asked Fahy to pay €3,000 to charity; he donated that sum to the Ardrahan Lourdes Invalid Fund. An ""Irish Independent"" journalist submitted a request for details under freedom of information legislation, and a Garda investigation was begun. When news of this became public in September 2004, Fahy resigned from Fianna Fáil, although local Fianna Fáil TD Joe Callanan and councillor Michael Regan supported him at his trial. In March 2007 at Galway Circuit Criminal Court"
"candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris. Her late husband Cllr Dr Iain Hanham was a respected oncologist and also a member of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 2002 until his death in 2011. Hanham was Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust from 2000 to 2007 and of Westminster Primary Care Trust. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1984 and became a CBE in 1997. She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 until 2013."