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The Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
In office
9 September 2004 – 10 May 2005
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Succeeded byThe Lord Adonis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs
In office
13 June 2003 – 9 September 2004
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Baroness Scotland of Asthal
Succeeded byThe Baroness Ashton of Upholland
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs
In office
29 May 2002 – 13 June 2003
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byBeverley Hughes
Succeeded byFiona Mactaggart
Lord-in-Waiting
Government Whip
In office
11 June 2001  – 29 May 2002
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale
Succeeded byno appointment
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
29 July 1999
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin

(1944-07-01) 1 July 1944 (age 80)
Birmingham
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
OccupationChair, Centre for Ageing Better (2013−2018)

David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin, Baron Filkin, CBE (born 1 July 1944) is a British Labour politician.[1][2][3]

Career

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Filkin was educated at King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history.[4] His early career was as a Director of Housing and then Chief Executive in Local Government. He was Chief Executive of the Association of District Councils, representing local authorities to government, promoting the foundation of the Local Government Association and creating Best Value, the policy for sourcing in local government. Later he was a policy analyst and writer, contributing to the development of Labour's policies for local and regional government. In 2000 he led the Prime Minister's Review of local government and subsequently was a government minister for four years.

Parliamentary career

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Filkin, having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 New Year Honours,[5] was created a life peer as Baron Filkin, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster, on 29 July 1999.[2][6] In 2000, with Simon Over, he founded the Parliament Choir, which gathers members of both Houses of Parliament and Parliamentary Staff.

He has held a number of Government offices, first as Lord in Waiting (junior Whip) from June 2001 to May 2002, then as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from May 2002 until June 2003, and then as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Departments for Constitutional Affairs (June 2003 to September 2004) and Education and Skills (September 2004 to May 2005).[citation needed]

He founded the Public Services Research Group which published Public Matters, a critical review of Labour's public service reforms and in 2008 he founded and chaired the charity, 2020 Public Services Trust. Its Commission into Public Services in 2020 reported in 2010. He led the report, Commissioning for Outcomes, proposing and explaining the policy of paying for results. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply. He founded the Parliament Choir in 2000, chaired the Committee on Statutory Instruments from 2005 to 2010 and proposed and then chaired the Lords Select Committee on Public Services and Demographic Change. Its report, Ready for Ageing? was published in March 2013.

Geoffrey Filkin was Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Public Service and Democratic Change which published a report on "Ready for Ageing?".[7]

Upon being appointed chair of the Big Lottery Fund's Centre for Ageing Better in November 2013, Filkin set aside the Labour whip, choosing to sit as a non-affiliated peer. Upon his resignation from the charity's chairmanship in 2018, Filkin returned to the Labour whip in January 2019.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Staff. David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin, Baron Filkin, National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2008-10-03
  2. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, vol. 1 (107th ed.), Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, p. 1430, ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9 – (Cited at thePeerage.com, which accessed 18 July 2020)
  3. ^ Staff. Lord Filkin, TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 2008-10-03
  4. ^ "Filkin". Who's Who. Vol. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "No. 54625". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1996. p. 8.
  6. ^ "No. 55573". The London Gazette. 5 August 1999. p. 8457.
  7. ^ "Geoffrey Filkin: Ready for Aging? - Eastminster". Eastminster. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  8. ^ "Lord Filkin to step down as Chair of Centre for Ageing Better". Charity Today. 3 September 2018.
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