David Hanson, Baron Hanson of Flint

The Right Honourable The Lord Hanson of Flint PC
Official portrait, 2024
Minister of State for the Home Office
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 July 2024
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Office established
Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing
In office 8 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Vernon Coaker
Succeeded by	Nick Herbert
Minister of State for Justice
In office 9 May 2007 – 9 June 2009
Prime Minister	Tony Blair Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Maria Eagle
Minister of State for Northern Ireland
In office 11 May 2005 – 8 May 2007
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	John Spellar
Succeeded by	Paul Goggins
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
In office 29 Jul 1999 – 7 Jun 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Peter Hain Jon Owen Jones
Succeeded by	Don Touhig
Shadow portfolios Shadow Minister for Immigration In office 7 October 2011 – 13 September 2015 Leader Ed Miliband Harriet Harman Preceded by Gerry Sutcliffe Succeeded by Keir Starmer Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury In office 11 May 2010 – 7 October 2011 Leader Harriet Harman Ed Miliband Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Cathy Jamieson
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 July 2024 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Delyn
In office 9 April 1992 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by	Keith Raffan
Succeeded by	Rob Roberts
Personal details
Born	(1957-07-05) 5 July 1957 (age 67) Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Margaret Hanson
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Hull

David George Hanson, Baron Hanson of Flint, PC (born 5 July 1957), is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Minister of State for the Home Office since July 2024.^[1] He previously served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Delyn from 1992 to 2019. He held several ministerial offices in the Blair and Brown governments, serving in the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Wales Office, the Northern Ireland Office and the Whips' Office. Hanson sat on Ed Miliband's opposition front bench as a shadow treasury minister, and later the shadow immigration minister.