Responsibilities
Lord Marland supports the Secretary of State on:
- Departmental performance and delivery
- Efficiency
- Lean regulation
- Departmental Carbon Budgets
- Managing liabilities, including coal health and the Concessionary Fuel Scheme
- Departmental business in the Lords
Biography
Lord Jonathan Marland is a Life Baron, British businessman and former Treasurer of the Conservative Party. He was awarded a life peerage in 2006 as Baron Marland of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire.
Before becoming Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Lord Marland was Opposition Whip in the Lords as well as Opposition Spokesperson for the Cabinet Office in 2009-10.
Outside of politics, Lord Marland was one of the founding directors of Jardine Lloyd Thomson plc, a multinational insurance business and also founded AppleClaim, the insurance company, at Lloyd's of London. He led the acquisitions of Hunter Wellington Boots, and Insurance Capital Partners. Currently, he is the Chairman of Herriot Ltd, Clareville Capital LLP, and is a Director of Janspeed Ltd, Hunter Boot Ltd and the stockbroking firm W H Ireland Ltd.
He is also Chairman of Harnham Water Meadows Trust, a Trustee of Peggy Guggenheim Museum (UK), and a Trustee of the Churchill Society. He is a member of the Development Committee at the Royal Academy of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He is also the President of Salisbury City F.C.
Born in 1956 and educated at Shrewsbury School, Lord Marland is married with four children.