Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet

Electoral history
Contested Wentworth 1987 general election. Member for Richmond (Yorkshire) since 23 February 1989 by-election

Commons Career
PPS to Norman Lamont as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1990-93;
Department of Social Security:
Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, 1993-94,
Minister of State, (Minister for Social Security and Disabled People) 1994-95;
Secretary of State for Wales 1995-97;
Leader of the Opposition 1997-2001;
Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet 2005-

Commons Select Committees
Member: Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform 2003-

Current posts
Vice-President All-Party America Group 1997-;
Deputy Chairman International Democrat Union, Global Alliance of Conservative, Christian Democrat and like-minded parties 2002-;
Member Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform 2002-;
Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet 2005-

Commons Backbench committees
Secretary:
Conservative Backbench Agriculture Committee 1989-90,
Conservative Yorkshire Members 1989-92

All-party groups (office-holding)
Vice-President America Group 1997-

Party groups
President Oxford University Conservative Association 1981;
Leader Conservative Party June 1997-2001

Region (GNN)
Yorkshire & Humberside

International bodies
International Democrat Union, Global Alliance of Conservative, Christian Democrat and like-minded parties:
Chairman 1999-2002,
Deputy Chairman 2002-

Political interests
Agriculture, Economic Policy

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Email address:

House of Commons: whague@conservative-party.org.uk

Telephone numbers:

House of Commons Phone number: 020 7219 4553
Constituency Phone number: 01609 779093
Constituency Fax number: 01609 778172

Addresses:

Constituency
c/o 67 High Street
Northallerton
North Yorkshire DL7 8E