The Rt Hon the Lady Taylor of Bolton, PC

Foretitle(s): Baroness (Life Peer UK 2005), of Bolton in the County of Greater Manchester;
Surname: TAYLOR OF BOLTON
Style: The Rt Hon the Lady Taylor of Bolton, PC

Career: MP (Lab) Bolton W Oct 1974-83 (also contested Feb 1974), Parly candidate Bolton NE 1983, MP (Lab) Dewsbury 1987-2005; PPS to: Sec of State for Defence 1976-77, Sec of State DES 1975-76; Govt whip 1977-79; oppn front bench spokesman: on educn 1979-81, on housing 1981-83, on home affrs 1987-88; memb Shadow Cabinet 1990-97; chief oppn spokesman: on environmental protection 1988-92, on educn 1992-94; shadow chllr of Duchy of Lancaster 1994-95; shadow ldr House of Commons 1994-97, Pres of the Cncl and Ldr of the House of Commons 1997-98, Parly sec to the Treasy (Govt chief whip) 1998-2001, Parly under sec of state for defence equipment and support 2007-10; memb Select Ctee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Select Ctee) 1995, memb Standards and Privileges Ctee 1995-97; chair Select Ctee on Modernisation 1997-98, Intelligence and Security Ctee 2001; dep chair Independent Football Cmmn 2002-; memb Jt Ctee on Parly Privilege 1997-99; former teacher, tutor Open Univ

Books and Publications: Political Action (with Jim Firth, 1978), Choosing Our Future (1992)