David Watts, Baron Watts
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |||||||||||||||||
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In office 10 May 2005 – 11 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | John Heppell | ||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Angela Watkinson | ||||||||||||||||
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Born | St Helens, England | 26 August 1951||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Avril Davies (m. 1972) | ||||||||||||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
David Leonard Watts, Baron Watts (born 26 August 1951) is a British politician and life peer who served in the Blair and Brown governments as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2005 to 2010 and chaired the Parliamentary Labour Party as a backbencher from 2012 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens North from 1997 to 2015.
Early life
Watts was educated at Malvern Primary School and Huyton Hey Secondary Modern School, Huyton. He was leader of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council for four years. He was a union official at Huntley & Palmers' biscuit factory in Huyton.
Parliamentary career
Watts was a
Watts was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.[4] On 23 October 2015, he was created Baron Watts, of Ravenhead in the County of Merseyside, for life.[5] By virtue of that life peerage, he became a member of the House of Lords. He entered the House of Lords on 3 December 2015 continuing to sit under the Labour whip.
Personal life
Watts married Avril Davies in 1972, with whom he has two sons.
References
- ^ "John Cryer Is The New Chair Of The PLP". LabourList. 9 February 2015.
- ^ "Dave Watts To Stand Down As St Helens North MP". St Helens Star. 3 January 2015.
- ^ "2014 11 – Parliamentary Notes". Labour Affairs Magazine. November 2014.
- ^ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "No. 61394". The London Gazette. 29 October 2015. p. 21238.