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Saturday, September 19, 2020

Mark Lancaster's life peerage gazetted ...

 _. The life peerage awarded to Mark Lancaster in Boris Johnson's Dissolution Honours list, has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton, of Kimbolton in the County of Cambridgeshire, 18 Sept, 2020.

John Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton], TD, VR, PC (born 12 May 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of the House of Lords. He previously served as Member of Parliament for North East Milton Keynes from 2005 until 2010 and then its successor seat Milton Keynes North from the seat's creation at the 2010 general election until his retirement from the House of Commons at the 2019 general election. He served as a Minister in several appointments after the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, first as Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury, before in May 2015 moving to the Ministry of Defence first as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Veterans, Reserves and Personnel, then on 13 June 2017, he was appointed Minister of State for the Armed Forces, he served in this role until his retirement from Government on 16 December 2019. 

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