David Howell

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David Howell, Lord Howell of Guildford, is a Conservative peer, and a Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[1]

Howell held the following ministerial posts while in the Commons:

Parliamentary Secretary, Civil Service Department 1970-72; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State: Department of Employment 1971-72, Northern Ireland Office March-November 1972; Minister of State: Northern Ireland Office 1972-74, Department of Energy 1974; Secretary of State for: Energy 1979-81, Transport 1981-83.[2]

Northern Ireland

Howell served in the Northern Ireland Office as an Under-Secretary of State from 26 March 1972 to 5 November 1972 and thereafter as a Minister of State until 8 January 1974.[3]

Notes

  1. Lord Howell of Guildford, www.parliament.uk, accessed 2 March 2010.
  2. Lord Howell of Guildford, www.parliament.uk, accessed 2 March 2010.
  3. David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000, p.34.