Martin Callanan, Baron Callanan

The Right Honourable
The Lord Callanan
The Right Honourable The Lord Callanan
	Official portrait, 2018
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 February 2023
Prime Minister	Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	Office established
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility
	In office; 14 February 2020 – 7 February 2023
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson; Liz Truss ; Rishi Sunak
Preceded by	The Lord Duncan of Springbank
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Minister of State for Exiting the European Union
	In office; 27 October 2017 – 31 January 2020
Prime Minister	Theresa May; Boris Johnson
Preceded by	The Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
	In office; 14 June 2017 – 27 October 2017
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Succeeded by	The Baroness Sugg
Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists
	In office; 11 December 2011 – 12 June 2014
Preceded by	Jan Zahradil
Succeeded by	Syed Kamall
Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament
	In office; 23 November 2010 – 1 March 2012
Preceded by	Timothy Kirkhope
Succeeded by	Richard Ashworth
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 6 November 2014; Life peerage
Member of the European Parliament; for North East England
	In office; 10 June 1999 – 2 July 2014
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Jonathan Arnott
Personal details
Born	8 August 1961; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Newcastle Polytechnic

Martin John Callanan, Baron Callanan (born 8 August 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North East England from 1999 to 2014 and Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group from 2011 to 2014. Callanan failed his bid to win re-election in the 2014 European Parliament elections, becoming the first sitting chairman of a European parliamentary group to lose his seat. On 8 August 2014, it was announced that he would be made a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.

Following the 2017 general election, Callanan was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport. In October the same year, he was appointed Minister of State for Exiting the European Union.

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