David Maclean
David John Maclean, Baron Blencathra, PC ( born May 16, 1953 in Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party and Life Peer. He was from 1983 to 2010 Member of the House of Commons and is a member of the House of Lords since 2011.
Life and career
Maclean attended Fortrose Academy in Fortrose, The Black Isle, Highland and the University of Aberdeen. He is director of the Two Lions Consultancy Ltd, an agency that advises the general public affairs.
MacLean suffers from multiple sclerosis since 1996.
Membership in the House of Commons
In 1983, Maclean William Whitelaw as MP for the constituency of Penrith and The Border in the House of Commons after he was appointed peer and moved to the House of Commons. He was called Thatcherite; about beggars, he said: "I will always give them something - I 'll give them a part of my mind. "
Under the reign of Margaret Thatcher Maclean was initially a Government Whip. From 1989 to 1992 he was Secretary of State ( Parliamentary Secretary ) at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. After the general election in 1992 he was Minister of State (Minister of State ), Ministry of Environment ( Department of the Environment ) and moved in 1993 to the post of Minister of State at the Ministry of the Interior (Home Office ), a post which he held until the defeat of the Conservative Party in the General Election 1997 held. In 1995 he turned down an offer to go to the cabinet - possibly as agriculture ministers - with the statement from that he was " A round peg in a round hole. "
In opposition period under the leadership of William Hague Maclean was a " backbencher ". After 2001, when Iain Duncan Smith new party chairman was, was appointed as Chief Whip Maclean ( Chief Whip ). When Smith lost a Vertauensabstimmung 2003, Maclean offered to resign, but was re- appointed by the new chairman Michael Howard. He returned to the back benches, as David Cameron was elected chairman.
During and since the general election in 2005, he worked intensively with the pro- hunting group Vote - OK, with the aim of returning a Conservative government to revoke the Hunting Act 2004. In 2006 he was a member of the House of Commons Commission. 2007 MacLean came into the headlines when he earned a Private Members Bill, which would have excluded the two chambers of the Parliament of the Freedom of Information Act. The bill turned out to be controversial, with the unofficial support of the government. MacLean said: "My bill is necessary to give an absolute guarantee that the correspondence of members of the Parliament remains confidential to a public authority in the interests of the electorate and of other persons ". The bill was approved by the House of Commons on 18 May 2007, but has no supporters ( sponsor) found in the House of Lords. A report by the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, published on 20 June 2007, said that the bill " does not meet the requirements in terms of care and appropriateness of adopting legal rules of constitutional significance. " In its report, the Constitutional Affairs said Committee in the House: "We can find no evidence that speaks or that existing protection measures for the correspondence of voters were not sufficient for the need for such an exception. " This Green Paper by Gordon Brown on constitutional reform, 'The Governance of Britain ', includes the statement "It is right that Parliament should be affected by the Act," which indicates that the main proposal of the bill does not become law.
Maclean was one of several special committees ( Select Committees ) to. In 2006, he was Chairman ( Chair ) of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.
On 26 June 2009, he announced before the Conservative Party of his constituency that he would not compete for the general election in 2010 because of its verschlimernden to multiple sclerosis.
Membership in the House of Lords
Maclean was appointed Life peer as Baron Blencathra, of Penrith in the County of Cumbria on February 28, 2011. His official introduction to the House of Lords took place on 10 March 2011 with assistance from David Waddington and Michael Howard. His inaugural address was delivered on 27 April 2011.
On meeting days Maclean is regularly present in spite of his poor health.
Criticism
The Daily Telegraph reported that Maclean involved more than £ 20,000 for work on his farmhouse under the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA ) before he sold it for £ 750,000. He referred the money by stating the house as a second home to the competent authority in the House, but he paid no capital gains tax, as the tax authorities had accepted it as his principal residence. MacLean was one of 98 MPs who voted to keep their expense details secret.
His role in the use of the Cayman Islands in April 2012 led to discussions about whether he had broken parliamentary rules.