Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Haskel | |
Office: | Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords |
Term Start: | 29 November 2010 |
Office1: | Lord-in-waiting Government Whip |
Primeminister1: | Tony Blair |
Term Start1: | 8 May 1997 |
Term End1: | 28 August 1998 |
Predecessor1: | The Lord Lucas |
Successor1: | The Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale |
Office5: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start5: | 4 October 1993 Life Peerage |
Party: | Labour |
Alma Mater: | University of Salford |
Simon Haskel, Baron Haskel (born 9 October 1934) is a British Labour Party politician and life peer.[1]
Simon Haskel was educated at Sedbergh School and Salford College of Advanced Technology (now the University of Salford), where he graduated with a BSc in Textile Technology. He then built up his own national and international textile firm, the Perrotts Group Plc.[2]
Haskel was created a life peer in the House of Lords on 4 October 1993, taking the title Baron Haskel, of Higher Broughton in the County of Greater Manchester. He served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the first Blair ministry from May 1997 to August 1998.