Profiles of Officers

Jonathan Evans MP - Chairman

• Conservative MP for Cardiff North since 2010


• Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnor 1992-1997.


• Corporate Affairs Minister at the Department of Trade and Industry John Major’s government. He later went onto be Under Secretary of State for Wales and Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.


• Conservative MEP for Wales for 10 years from 1999 - 2009, He led the Conservative group from 2001 - 2004 and later went on to become President of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the USA.


• In 1997, he was appointed Director of Insurance in the City of London office of Eversheds, the major global law firm and remains a consultant to the practice. He has also acted as a consultant on London Insurance market issues to several major North American insurance corporations and was a director of NFU Mutual.


• He is a former Deputy Chairman of the Welsh Housing Corporation (Tai Cymru). In 1995 he was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.(FRSA).


• He trained with solicitors Leo Abse and Cohen in Cardiff from 1968 and joined the firm upon qualification in 1973 rising to Managing Partner in 1987.

Deputy Chairmen

Andy Love MP - Deputy Chairman

• Labour MP for Edmonton since 1997


• Born and brought up in the West of Scotland and after graduating from university in 1973 moved to London. He had a number of different jobs before becoming involved in politics, including managing a small import-export company in North London and working as the secretary to the London Co-operative political committee.


• Elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey in 1980, serving two terms and becoming Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Housing Committee. Chair of the Hornsey and Wood Green Constituency Labour Party between 1987 and 1989.


• Elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey in 1980, serving two terms and becoming Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Housing Committee. Chair of the Hornsey and Wood Green Constituency Labour Party between 1987 and 1989.


• Before being elected as the Labour and Co-operative Party Member of Parliament for Edmonton in May 1997 he was the Parliamentary Officer of the Co-operative Movement, working closely with a group of 19 MPs and Peers.


• Since 2005 he has been a member of the Treasury Select Committee, which investigates issues surrounding the economy and the banking and financial sectors, and he is also an active member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Small Business, Mutuality Housing, Sri Lanka and Mexico.


• Andy has a blog which he regularly updates http://andylovemp.blogspot.com

Rt Hon Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE - Deputy Chairman

President of the Atlantic Association of Young Political Leaders and Chairman of the British Youth Council.

Elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Wirral at a by-election in March 1976 and spent 21 years as an MP. In 1979, he became a member of Margaret Thatcher's first administration - serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Nott, first at Trade and then at Defence. Served as a Whip, then as Coal Minister.

• DeputyChief Whip 1987-89


• Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities 1989-90


• Secretary of State for Wales 1990-93


• Secretary of State for Employment 1993


• Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (and Minister for Public Service and Science) in 1994


• As a Member of the House of Lords, he often represents the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on insurance and reinsurance


• President of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Health and Safety


• Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Council Against Racism and Anti-Semitism


• Trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust and Vice Chairman of the War Crimes Group


• Awarded the MBE in 1973 and appointed to the Privy Council in 1990. He was made a Life Peer as Lord Hunt of Wirral in 1997

Educated at Liverpool College, then graduated in Law from Bristol University. Deputy Chairman of The English Speaking Union Senior Partner of Beachcroft Wansbroughs.

He advises the Association of British Insurers. He led the legal teams which established PASS (the Pension Advisers' Support System), the Pensions Protection Investments Accreditation Board (PPIAB) and its Raising Standards Quality Mark, and the Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA). He served as the first chairman of AIFA from 1999 to 2002.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an honorary fellow of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management In 2004 he became the first independent chairman of the Professional Standards Board of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). Trustee of the British Occupational Health Research Foundation.

Co-founded- and served as the first chairman of - the Case Management Society UK (CMSUK).

He started as a trainee solicitor with one of the predecessor firms of Beachcroft Wansbroughs. From 1965, he was articled to a former President of the Law Society, Sir Denys Hicks; and, after admission as a solicitor, was made a Partner in 1968. He became Senior Partner in 1996 and has been re-elected for a further term of three years to 2006.

David is married with four children.

Lord Newby - Deputy Chairman

Grew up in a Labour stronghold and was a member of the Labour Party at university and in several London Boroughs. During the 1975 European referendum, he was General Secretary of Young European Left, the pro-European youth wing of the Labour Party.

He worked for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for its whole life and was its chief executive from 1983-88. He has worked on all subsequent Lib Dem General Election campaigns, as press officer to Paddy Ashdown (1992), Deputy Campaign Chairman (1997) and subsequently as a member of the Campaigns and Communications Committee. He was Charles Kennedy's Chief of Staff during his period as Leader.

Outside politics he has been a tax man (HM Customs and Excise 1974-81), corporate affairs director of a property company (Rosehaugh 1988-92) and a PR/public affairs adviser (1992-2001). Now Chair of Live Consulting, a corporate responsibility consultancy. Chair of Sport at The Prince's Trust and a Trustee of International Development through Sport (IDS UK). Non-executive director of Elmwood Design Ltd.

He was born in Rothwell, West Yorkshire and attended Rothwell Grammar School before studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Catherine's College Oxford. He is married to Ailsa - a Church of England vicar - and has two university-aged sons.

Lord Newby has been a spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats in the Lords for the Treasury.

Expertise & Interests:

Corporate responsibility

-Chairman of Live Consulting, adviser on corporate responsibility

-Vice-Chairman, Parliamentary All Party Corporate Responsibility Group

-Vice-Chairman, Parliamentary All-Party Social enterprise Group

Economy

-Economics Degree

-Former Customs and Excise Tax Policy Adviser

-Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson 1999 - 2009

Small Businesses

-Founder of Live Consulting (2001)

-Non-Executive Director of Elmwood Design Ltd

Culture,Media and Sport

-Chair of Sport at the Prince's Trust for 11 years;

-Chair of IDS (UK Sport's International Development Charity);

-Through his company - Live Consulting – has run sport and education programmes in the Caribbean and South Africa

Hon Sec

Tracey Crouch MP

Conservtaive MP for Chatham & Aylesford since 2010.

Born in 1975, Tracey grew up and was educated in Kent. As the daughter of a social worker and insurance broker, Tracey left Kent to study Law at Hull University when after graduation she accidentally found herself working as a researcher to a Conservative MP rather than training to become a solicitor. After two years of working in Parliament (1996-1998) for various MPs including Michael Howard, Tracey left to work as a political consultant where she represented clients ranging from a major chocolate manufacturer, financial institutions and members of the chemical industry, through to slimming groups and pet charities. In 2003, Tracey was asked to return to Parliament to become Chief of Staff to the Shadow Education Secretary Damian Green before moving to become Chief of Staff to Shadow Home Secretary David Davis shortly after. Having seen David Davis’ majority triple in the 2005 General Election, Tracey once again left Parliament to work in the City for insurance giant Norwich Union and its FTSE parent Aviva,

Tracey is a keen sports enthusiast and since ‘retiring’ from playing football has become a FA qualified football coach. Tracey likes reading, travelling, listening to an eclectic music collection, and eating!

01 Jan 2000