Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe
Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe (born June 21, 1942 in Alverthorpe ) is a British trade unionist , politician ( Labor Party ) and businessman .
life and career
Brooke was born on June 21, 1942 to John Brooke and Mary Colbeck. He attended Thornes House School in Wakefield .
From 1964 to 1982 he was Assistant Secretary for the Inland Revenue Staff Federation . From 1982 to 1988 he was its deputy general secretary, from 1988 to 1995 general secretary.
Brooke was a member of the House of Commons Speaker's Commission on Citizenship in 1988 . From 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland Inquiry into Unemployment and the Future of Work . From 1996 to 2005 he was a member of the Pensions Compensation Board .
In 1996 Brooke became Joint General Secretary of the Public Services Tax and Commerce Union and remained so until 1998. He was a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1989 to 1996 and a member of the TUC Executive Committee from 1993 to 1996 . From 2001 to 2006 he was Government Partner Director of NATS Limited . Brooke is a member of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the successor to the union he led. He is a member of the Trust Council of Community Service Volunteers (CSV) and a member of the Board of Directors ( Council ) at Action on Addiction .
He is patron ( saint ) of the Kenward Trust . He also holds this position at the Sparrow Schools Foundation and the eATA , which works with addicts.
Membership in the House of Lords
Brooke was promoted to Life Peer on August 2, 1997 as Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe , of Alverthorpe in the County of West Yorkshire . He sits in the House of Lords for the Labor Party . There it was officially launched on October 27, 1997 with the assistance of Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean and Derek Gladwin, Baron Gladwin of Clee . He gave his inaugural address there on December 11, 1997.
As topics of political interest, he indicates on the House of Lords side: employment and labor market policy , transport policy and “drugs and alcohol”. He mentions Sweden as a state of interest .
Brooke is a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . He was a member of the Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform . Brooke is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group .
Brooke is regularly present on meeting days.
In 2000 he personally thanked a group of students at Imperial College London who had testified before a House of Lords committee on e-commerce and its implications for UK and European Union legislation , and invited them to dinner; it was the first time that students were heard as subject matter experts.
Brooke came under fire in November 2009 when it became known that he owned a house in London but was regularly receiving accommodation and expense allowances.
Private
Brooke married Lorna Hopkin Roberts in 1967. On the occasion of a television series on the BBC , he returned to his hometown Alverthorpe for the last episode , where he spent the first 21 years of his life. This program was first broadcast in January 2011.
Web links
- Clive Brooke at Hansard (English)
- Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe at theyworkforyou
- Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe at The Public Whip
- Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe Official website of the House of Lords
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- ↑ Lord Clive Brooke of Alverthorpe, Patron ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography at the Kenward Trust , accessed July 8, 2012
- ↑ trustees and patrons of sparrow schools foundation ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry on the Sparrowschools website , accessed on July 8, 2012
- ↑ Board of Trustees 2011 ( Memento of the original dated August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry on the eATA website , accessed on July 8, 2012
- ↑ Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe Excerpt from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of October 27, 1997
- ^ Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform Second Report ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report on the House of Lords website , accessed July 8, 2012
- ↑ Members ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry on the All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group's website , accessed July 8, 2012
- ↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed July 1, 2012
- ↑ Lords seek advice from management students Entry on the website of Imperial College London , accessed on July 8, 2012
- ↑ Labor peer Baron Brooke claimed £ 140,000 for 'overnight allowance' while living just three miles from House of Lords Article in: Daily Mail of November 28, 2009
- ↑ Lord a Living article on BBC News , January 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brooke, Clive, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician (Labor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alverthorpe |