David Garfield Davies

(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-

• Built Environment All Party Parliamentary Group
• Labour Friends of Israel