John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach
John Derek Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach, of South Holland in the County of Lincolnshire CBE FRSA ( born November 12, 1943) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, and since 2006 member of the House of Lords.
Life
Functionary of the Conservative Party
Taylor attended the Primary School in Holbeach, St Felix School in Felixstowe and the Bedford College. He then worked in the private sector.
In the mid- 1960s he began his political involvement and was 1966-1998 Member of the Executive Committee of the Conservative Party in the East Midlands region. In the general election on 28 February and on 10 October 1974 he competed unsuccessfully in constituency Chesterfield a seat in the House of Commons.
Between 1982 and 1987 he engaged various working groups for the European industry and light bulbs from 1985 to 1989, member of the Finance Committee of the Conservative Party. Besides his activities as a member of the Horticulture Development Council from 1986 to 1991, he was between 1990 and 1992 first as a member of the Regional Board of the Department of Agriculture for the East of England and then in 1996 for East Midlands.
For his services he was appointed in 1992 Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Taylor, who was from 1995 to 2001 for the first time also a member of the Committee for gardens administration in the diocese of Lincoln was, between 1996 and 1998 for the first time also a member of the management committee of the Conservative Party and an additional 1997 to 1998 Chairman of the candidate committees and at the same time president of the party conferences of his party.
By 2000, Taylor took over numerous outstanding features in the Conservative Party, and that he was from 2000 to 2003 Vice-Chairman, Chairman of the National Conservative Convention and once again a member of the management committee of his party. In addition, he was between 2001 and 2009 Chairman of the Foreign Organization of the Party ( Conservatives Abroad ) and again from 2002 to 2005 Chairman of the candidate committee of the Tories, and finally between 2006 and 2010 Chairman of the staff pension fund of the Conservative Party. Since 2004 he is also member of the committee again for gardens administration in the diocese of Lincoln.
Member of the House of Lords
On June 5, 2006 Taylor was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Taylor of Holbeach, of South Holland in the County of Lincolnshire in the peerage, and has been a member of the House of Lords.
During his membership in the House of Lords he was appointed as Deputy Chief Whip in 2006 first spokesman of the opposition Tory Group for the Environment, for Wales and for Work and Pensions. Then he was from January 2007 to January 2009 Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the Conservative shadow cabinet, and between January 2009 and May 2010, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions.
After the electoral victory of the Conservative Party in the general election on 6 May 2010 and the inauguration of Prime Minister David Cameron was Baron Taylor speaker of the Regierungsfaktion for the Cabinet Office, energy and climate change and for Work and Pensions.
Since 2011 he has been Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and thus belongs to the closest staff of Minister Caroline Spelman.