Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
OBE PC
Official portrait, 2018
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
In office
5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
LeaderThe Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Preceded byThe Lord Rooker
Succeeded byThe Lord McNally
Junior ministerial offices 1998-2010
Government Whip
In office
28 July 1998  – 28 July 1999
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Lord Whitty
Succeeded byThe Lord Bach
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born19 May 1949 (1949-05-19) (age 75)
NationalityBritish
Political party
Labour Co-operative
Alma materUniversity of Leeds

Philip Alexander Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath,

Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords
.

Early life and career

Born in 1949, Philip Hunt was educated at the single-sex grammar school City of Oxford High School for Boys, later the Oxford School. He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political studies.

Professional career

Hunt became a works study officer in 1972 for the

Community Health Council. He was the first Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, and previously Director of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts (NAHAT) from its formation in 1990. Before that he was Director of its predecessor organisation, the National Association of Health Authorities (NAHA) from 1984 to 1990. In the 1993 Birthday Honours, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as an Officer (OBE) for "services to the NHS".[1]

Hunt was President of the Royal Society for Public Health from 2010 to 2018.[2]

Parliamentary career

In 1997, Hunt was created a

Invasion of Iraq
.

Hunt was re-appointed to government in May 2005 as a PUSS at the Department for Work and Pensions. He returned to the Department of Health as Minister of State in January 2007.

Following the appointment of

Privy Council
. He left his ministerial offices in May 2010 after Labour lost the general election.

Following the election of Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader, Hunt was appointed Labour's spokesperson on Home Affairs and the Cabinet Office in the House of Lords.[4] He left these roles in September 2012. He served as Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords from 2010 until 2017.[5] He was a Lords spokesperson for Health, later Health and Social Care, from 6 September 2012 until leaving the role on 24 May 2018 to become a backbencher.

In September 2011, Hunt contributed to the book What next for Labour? Ideas for a new generation; his piece was entitled Our NHS: The Labour Party Challenge.[6]

From 2011 until 2014, he served as Chair of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.

References

  1. ^ "No. 53332". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1993. p. 11.
  2. ^ RSPH press release announcing Lord Hunt as new President Archived 2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "No. 54928". The London Gazette. 23 October 1997. p. 11907.
  4. ^ "Labour's New Front Bench Team". 10 October 2010. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath". Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  6. ^ www.whatnextforlabour.com/contributors/

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Political offices
Preceded by Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
2008–2010 		Succeeded by
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Cope of Berkeley
 Gentlemen
Baron Hunt of Kings Heath 		Followed by
The Lord Hunt of Wirral
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