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Working Peers List

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned:

To be Baronesses:

Dr Kay ANDREWS, OBE, Director, Education Extra.

Angela Theodora BILLINGHAM, JP, Formerly Member (Labour) Northampton and Blaby, European Parliament.

Mrs Janet COHEN, Non-Executive Director and Consultant, Charterhouse Bank Ltd.

Ms Anne GIBSON, OBE, Former National Secretary, Manufacturing Science and Finance Union.

Dr Lindsay GRANSHAW, Chair, Women’s Liberal Democrats.

Dame Sheila MASTERS, DBE, Partner, KPMG.

Mrs Rosalind Carol SCOTT, Group Leader, Suffolk County Council.

Mrs Joan WALMSLEY, Public Relations Consultant.

To be Barons:

Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, Baron ACTON Bt, Writer.

Michael ASHCROFT, Chairman, Carlisle Holdings Ltd.

Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock, Baron BERKELEY OBE, Chairman, Rail Freight Group; Piggybank Consortium.

Alexander BERNSTEIN, Retired Television Executive and Chairman, Old Vic Theatre Trust.

Daniel Joseph BRENNAN QC, Chairman, The Bar Council.

Thomas Orlando Lyttelton, Viscount CHANDOS, Chairman, Lopex plc

Sebastian Newbold COE, OBE, Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition.

Matthew EVANS CBE, Managing Director, Faber & Faber.

George Lennox FYFE, Chief Executive, Midlands Co-operative Society Ltd; Chairman, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.

Anthony Robert GREAVES, Former Councillor, Pendle Borough Council

Julian Pascoe Francis St Leger, Baron GRENFELL, Former Advisor to the World Bank.

Robin Granville HODGSON CBE, Chairman and Founder, Granville plc.

Professor Julian Charles Roland HUNT CB FRS, Professor of Climate Modelling, Department of Space and Climate Physics and Geological Sciences and Honorary Professor of Mathematics, University College London.

William Brian JORDAN CBE, General Secretary, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Professor Peter Richard Grenville LAYARD, Director, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics.

James Thorne Erskine, the Earl of MAR and KELLIE DL, Former Member of the House of Lords.

Parry MITCHELL, Founder and Chairman, Syscap plc.

Professor Kenneth Owen MORGAN, Research Professor, University College of Swansea.

Matthew OAKESHOTT, Director, OLIM Ltd and Warburg Investment Management.

Professor Bhikhu Chotalal PAREKH, Professor of Political Theory, Hull University.

Frederick Matthew Thomas, Baron PONSONBY OF SHULBREDE, Former Spokesman on Education, House of Lords; Delegate, Council of Europe and WEU.

Rupert Bertram Mitford, Baron REDESDALE, Former Liberal Democrat spokesman, House of Lords.

John Francis Hodgess ROPER, Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges.

David Trevor SHUTT, OBE, Chartered Accountant and Group Leader, Calderdale MBC.

Sir Leslie (Arnold) TURNBERG, President, British Society of Gastroenterlogy.

31st March 2000

Note for Editors

In order to meet the requirements for a Working Peer, Mr Michael Ashcroft has given his clear and unequivocal assurance that he will take up permanent residence in the United Kingdom again before the end of the calendar year. He would be introduced into the House of Lords only after taking up that residence. These undertakings have been endorsed by the Leader of the Conservative Party and conveyed to the Prime Minister - and to the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee.