The Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Chairman of the Defence Select Committee | |
| In office 13 July 2005 – 14 May 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Bruce George |
| Succeeded by | Rory Stewart |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Trade | |
| In office 6 November 2003 – 6 May 2005 | |
| Leader | Michael Howard |
| Preceded by | Tim Yeo (Trade and Industry) |
| Succeeded by | David Willetts (Trade and Industry) |
| Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons | |
| In office 23 June 1997 – 18 September 2001 | |
| Leader | William Hague |
| Preceded by | Alastair Goodlad |
| Succeeded by | David Maclean |
| Minister of State for Defence Procurement | |
| In office 6 July 1995 – 2 May 1997 | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Roger Freeman |
| Succeeded by | John Gilbert |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2015 Life peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for North East Hampshire | |
| In office 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Ranil Jayawardena |
| Member of Parliament for Wanstead and Woodford | |
| In office 11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 August 1952 Deal, Kent, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
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| Alma mater | |
| Website | www.jamesarbuthnot.com |
James Norwich Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, PC (born 4 August 1952), is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wanstead and Woodford from 1987 to 1997, and then MP for North East Hampshire from 1997 to 2015.
Arbuthnot served as chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014,[1] before being nominated as a life peer in the Dissolution Peerages List 2015 of August 2015.[2]
Created Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom, of Edrom in the County of Berwick, on 1 October 2015,[3] Lord Arbuthnot sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
- ^ "MP Profile". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ "Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "notice 2410213". The London Gazette.