The Baron Laming, CBE, PC, died 15 July, 2026, aged 89.
Laming was a social worker and member of the House of Lords. He served as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers from 2011 to 2015 and as Chairman of Committees from 2015 to 2016.
William Herbert Laming, was born 19 July, 1936, at Newcastle upon Tyne, and was educated at the University of Durham.
He was Chief Inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate from 1991 until 1998. He has worked as an advisor to the Local Government Association, and is a past President of the Association of Directors of Social Services. He is involved with many social services organisations.
He was appointed CBE in 1985, knighted in 1996, and raised to the peerage for life in 1998 as Baron Laming, of Tewin in the County of Hertfordshire.
In 1999, he was given an honorary Doctor of Science by his old university, Durham.
In 2000, he was appointed head of the Harold Shipman inquiry, originally a private inquiry. However, relatives of Shipman's victims wanted a public inquiry, and they won a judicial review, forcing the inquiry to become public. Dame Janet Smith replaced Laming as the chairman. In the same year, he also investigated management in the prison service.
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