About Alan Haselhurst
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, is a former 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 February 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. He was given the privilege of asking the first question in Margaret Thatcher's final Prime Minister's Questions on 27 November 1990. Before his election to parliament, Haselhurst worked in management in the chemicals industry and became an unremunerated director when his father's pharmacy was incorporated. Nominated for elevation to the peerage on 18 May 2018, he was created by Letters Patent on 22 June, Baron Haselhurst, of Saffron Walden in the County of Essex, before being introduced to the Upper House to sit on the Conservative benches.
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