Jonathan Marland, Baron Marland

Jonathan Marland, Baron Marland

Jonathan Peter Marland, Baron Marland (* 14. August 1956 ) is a British manager and politician of the Conservative Party , which since 2006 Peer Life Member of the House of Lords is.

Life

After attending Shrewsbury School, Marland worked as an insurance agent and most recently director of the insurance agency Jardine Lloyd Thompson plc. In the general election on June 7, 2001 Marland ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Somerset and Frome for a seat in the House of Commons . In the following period he was treasurer of the conservative Tories from 2003 to 2007 and was also a member of the party's executive committee between 2005 and 2007. Between 2005 and 2006 he was also director of the company C & UCO Properties, which manages the property of the Conservative Party.

By a letters patent dated June 8, 2006, Marland was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Marland , of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire . Shortly thereafter took place on 12 June 2006 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the faction of the Conservative Party.

Subsequently, between 2007 and 2008, he was treasurer of Boris Johnson's successful campaign for the office of Mayor of London in the Mayor election on May 1, 2008, which Johnson won against Ken Livingstone , the Labor Party candidate . He was then a member of the Development Committee of the Royal Academy of Arts between 2008 and 2010 . In 2010, Lord Marland became parliamentary director ( Whip ) of the opposition Tory parliamentary group in the upper house and was also the opposition spokesman for the Cabinet Office and for energy and climate change until 2010 .

After the Conservative Party won the general election on May 6, 2010 and David Cameron took office as Prime Minister , he became Parliamentary Undersecretary of State and Government Spokesman for the Ministry of Energy and Climate Change in 2010. Since 2012 Lord Marland has been Parliamentary State Secretary and Government Spokesperson in the Department of Enterprise, Innovation and Skills. In this role, he represented the government's corporate policy interests in the House of Lords until he stepped down from the House of Lords on January 8, 2013.

He is also a director of Insurance Capital Partners Ltd and TestMatchExtra.com Ltd.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lord Marland stands down as businiess minister BBC News January 8, 2013, accessed January 9, 2013

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 19, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 19, 2012)