Harold Carter, Baron Carter of Haslemere

Harold Mark Carter, Baron Carter of Haslemere, CB (born 12 September 1958)[1] is a British lawyer, life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords.

The Right Honourable
The Lord Carter of Haslemere
CB
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
30 October 2019
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1958-09-12) 12 September 1958
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Alma materUniversity of Reading

Career

Carter studied law at the University of Reading, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree.[2] He worked at the Home Office from 1989 to 2006, and then the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2006 to 2009. He returned to the Home Office as deputy legal advisor in 2009. He has served as general counsel of 10 Downing Street since 2016.[2] He is a bencher at Gray's Inn.[3]

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to Government Legal Services and services to community in Guildford, Surrey.[4]

In 2019, he was nominated for a life peerage in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours and was created Baron Carter of Haslemere, of Haslemere in the County of Surrey, on 30 October.[5][6][7] As of March 2023, he has no recorded votes,[8] written questions,[9] or spoken contributions to the House of Lords.[10]

References
  1. "Harold Carter". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  2. "Carter of Haslemere, Baron, (Harold Mark Carter) (born 21 Sept. 1958)". Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  3. "Senior judge among resignation honours nominees". The Law Society Gazette. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  4. "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N3.
  5. "Resignation Peerages 2019" (PDF). Cabinet Office. 10 September 2019.
  6. "Lord Carter of Haslemere". UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  7. "No. 62815". The London Gazette. 4 November 2019. p. 19788.
  8. "Lord Carter of Haslemere: Voting record". members.parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  9. "Lord Carter of Haslemere: Written questions". members.parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  10. "Lord Carter of Haslemere: Spoken contributions". members.parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
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