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New page: (David) '''Garfield Davies''' was created Lord Davies of Coity in 1997. Born in 1935, Lord Davies is a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader. Lord...

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(David) '''Garfield Davies''' was created Lord Davies of Coity in 1997.

Born in 1935, Lord Davies is a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader. Lord Davies left school at 15 and worked as an electrician, serving in the Royal Air Force from 1956-1958. In 1969 he became a full time trade union official with USDAW and rose through the ranks, becoming General Secretary of the union in 1986. He retired in 1997.

*Councils, public bodies: Councillor, Penybont RDC 1966-69;
*JP, Ipswich 1972-78
*Name, style and title: Raised to the peerage as Baron Davies of Coity, of Penybont in the County of Mid Glamorgan 1997

==Affiliations==
===Lords Select Committees===
Member Ecclesiastical Joint Committee 2005-

===All-party groups (office-holding)===
*Chair [[Cayman Islands Group]] 2001-;
Vice-chair [[Built Environment Group]] 2002-;

===Secretary===
Housing, Care and Support Group 2004-,
Aluminium Industry Group 2005-;
Vice-chair Kidney Group 2005-;
Treasurer Jazz Appreciation Group 2005-;
===Vice-chair===
Furniture Industry Group 2006-,
Roofing Industry 2007-

===Countries of interest===
British Overseas Territories

===International bodies===
Member:
*[[Inter-Parliamentary Union]] 1997-,
*[[Commonwealth Parliamentary Association]] 1997-<ref>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/memi352.htm</ref>

*[[Built Environment All Party Parliamentary Group]]
*[[Labour Friends of Israel]]
==Notes==
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[[Category:Israel Lobby|Davies, Garfield]]

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Claire Robinson at 15:08, 9 April 2009

Claire Robinson: New page: (David) '''Garfield Davies''' was created Lord Davies of Coity in 1997. Born in 1935, Lord Davies is a Labour Co-operative peer in the House of Lords and a former trade union leader. Lord...