Kenneth Clarke

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Kenneth Clarke was appointed Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet in September 2012.[1]

He was previously Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice in the incoming coalition cabinet appointed in 2010.[2]

He is a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Conservative Party. He represents the constituents for Radcliffe.[3]

Kenneth Clarke entered Parliament in the June 1970 General election with a majority of 12,974 votes.[4]

Early Life

After passing his 11+, Clarke attended Nottingham High School, one of Britain's oldest private schools on a free local authority scholarship from 1951.[5]

Bilderberger

Clarke is on the Steering Committee of the influential and secretive Bilderberg Group. In June 2013 Clarke admitted in the Commons that he may have failed fully to declare his role organising the annual Bilderberg meetings of world leaders, and that he had “forgotten” that the controversial gatherings were paid for from funds raised by the group. According to the Telegraph Clarke:

said he was checking his records to see whether he had informed civil servants of his role, as would be expected to avoid potential suggestions of a conflict of interest. Mr Clarke made the disclosure while answering questions over the “private” meeting of 140 of the world’s most powerful executives, politicians, ministers and advisers, which took place at a hotel near Watford last week.

The minister, who has been a member of the Bilderberg Group steering committee for 10 years, attended the annual event, along with David Cameron, George Osborne, Ed Balls and Lord Mandelson. [6]

Affiliations

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

As at March 2010 Clarke sits on the following All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs): [7]

External Resources

Contact Details

  • Office address: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA[18]
  • Office Email: clarkek@parliament.uk[19]

Notes

  1. ↑ Juliette Jowit, Shiv Malik and Haroon Siddique, Cabinet reshuffle: who has moved so far?, guardian.co.uk, 4 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Her Majesty’s Government, Number10.gov.uk, accessed 12 May 2010.
  3. ↑ They Work for You, They Work For You website, accessed 24 March 2010
  4. ↑ They Work for You, They Work For You website, accessed 24 March 2010
  5. ↑ Chris Holt, THIS SCHOOL, WHICH ONCE TAUGHT DH LAWRENCE, HAS ALSO PRODUCED AN EXTRAORDINARY GROUP OF ECONOMIC THINKERS, LED BY OLD BOYS KENNETH CLARKE AND LABOUR'S RISING STAR ED BALLS, Mail on Sunday, 13 December 1998.
  6. ↑ Tim Ross, Bilderberg: Ken Clarke 'forgot' he was a trustee of funding group, The Telegraph, 5:07PM BST 10 Jun 2013, see also recording of Clarke on this issue in the Commons in same article
  7. ↑ Register of All-Party Groups, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  8. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  9. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group on Boxing, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  10. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid & Trade, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  11. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  12. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group for Funerals and Bereavement, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  13. ↑ Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) UK All-Party Parliamentary Group, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  14. ↑ Group on Guantanamo Bay, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  15. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  16. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Group for Parkinson's Disease, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  17. ↑ All-Party Parliamentary Rowing Group, Register of All-Party Groups (As at 24 February 2010), accessed 24 March 2010
  18. ↑ find your MP, Parliament website, accessed 24 March 2010
  19. ↑ find your MP, Parliament website, accessed 24 March 2010

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