Harold Mark Carter, Baron Carter of Haslemere, CB (born 12 September 1958)[1] is a British lawyer, life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.
The Lord Carter of Haslemere | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 30 October 2019 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 September 1958 |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
| Alma mater | University of Reading |
Career
editCarter studied law at the University of Reading, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree.[2] He worked at the Home Office from 1989 to 2006, and then the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2006 to 2009. He returned to the Home Office as deputy legal advisor in 2009. He has served as general counsel of 10 Downing Street since 2016.[2] He is a bencher at Gray's Inn.[3]
He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to Government Legal Services and services to community in Guildford, Surrey.[4]
House of Lords
editIn 2019, he was nominated for a life peerage in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baron Carter of Haslemere, of Haslemere in the County of Surrey, on 30 October.[5][6][7] He was one of 11 peers who had not yet taken an oath to King Charles III by September 2023: peers are required to swear or affirm the oath of allegiance to the new monarch and cannot sit or vote in the House of Lords until they have done so.[8] He stated that he refrained from involvement in the Lords "to avoid any conflict of interest whilst working as a crown [civil] servant".[8]
Carter was introduced to the House of Lords on 4 December 2023.[9] He made his maiden speech on 18 December 2023.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Harold Carter". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Carter of Haslemere, Baron, (Harold Mark Carter) (born 21 Sept. 1958)". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Senior judge among resignation honours nominees". The Law Society Gazette. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N3.
- ^ "Resignation Peerages 2019" (PDF). Cabinet Office. 10 September 2019.
- ^ "Lord Carter of Haslemere". UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "No. 62815". The London Gazette. 4 November 2019. p. 19788.
- ^ a b Dyer, Henry (17 September 2023). "Eleven peers have not sat in Lords for at least a year after failing to take oath to king". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ "Introduction: Lord Carter of Haslemere". UK Parliament. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ Lord Carter of Haslemere (18 December 2023). "Victims and Prisoners Bill". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 834. United Kingdom: House of Lords. col. 2103–2105.
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