Alan Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst

The Right Honourable
The Lord Haselhurst
PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Haselhurst PC
	Lord Haselhurst, 2022
Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
	In office; 27 July 2011 – October 2014
Deputy	Nafisa Shah
Preceded by	Shafie Apdal
Succeeded by	Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury
Chairman of the Administration Committee
	In office; 27 July 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Frank Doran
Succeeded by	Sir Paul Beresford
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons; Chairman of Ways and Means
	In office; 14 May 1997 – 8 June 2010
Speaker	Betty Boothroyd; Michael Martin; John Bercow
First Deputy	Michael Martin; Sylvia Heal; Nigel Evans
Second Deputy	Michael Lord; Dawn Primarolo
Preceded by	Michael Morris
Succeeded by	Lindsay Hoyle
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 3 July 2018; Life Peerage
Member of Parliament ; for Saffron Walden
	In office; 8 July 1977 – 3 May 2017
Preceded by	Sir Peter Kirk
Succeeded by	Kemi Badenoch
Member of Parliament ; for Middleton and Prestwich
	In office; 18 June 1970 – 8 February 1974
Preceded by	Denis Coe
Succeeded by	Jim Callaghan
Personal details
Born	23 June 1937; South Elmsall, Yorkshire, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Angela Bailey (m. 1977)
Children	2 sons, 1 daughter
Alma mater	Oriel College, Oxford
Occupation	Politician
Website	www.siralanhaselhurst.net

Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, PC (born 23 June 1937), is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017, having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010, and later Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014. The oldest Conservative MP to stand down at the 2017 general election, he was created a Life Peer in May 2018, sitting in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.

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