Tom McNally

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Tom McNally is a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice[1] and is Deputy Leader of the House of Lords ( leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords since 2004).


Background

His biography on the Liberal Democrat Party website reads:

He was appointed a Parliamentary adviser to GEC (1983-4) and then Director General of the British Retail Consortium (1985-87). In 1987, he joined public relations firm Hill and Knowlton as Director of Public Affairs, before moving to a similar position at Shandwick Public Relations in 1993. He subsequently became Vice-Chairman of Shandwick. In 2003, he was appointed to the new post of non-executive Vice-Chairman of Weber Shandwick following the take-over of Shandwick by American communications giant Interpublic. He left Weber Shandwick in November 2004 on his appointment as Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords[2]

Ministerial responsibilities

  • Departmental business in the Lords
  • Support to Secretary of State on constitutional matters
  • Human rights and civil liberties
  • Freedom of information, data protection and data sharing
  • Legislation and law reform
  • Public law and public legal issues
  • Support to the Secretary of State on EU and international business
  • Crown dependencies
  • Land Registry
  • National Archives
  • Law Commission

Affiliations

He is a Fellow of University College London, the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute of Public Relations, and the Industry and Parliament Trust. He is a Trustee of the Verulamium Museum, St. Albans, President of the St. Albans Liberal Democrats and a member of the National Liberal Club.

External Resources

Notes

  1. Full list of new cabinet ministers and other government appointments, guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2010.
  2. Lib Dems Lord McNally, accessed 3 Nov 2009