Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans
In office 11 May 2005 – 5 May 2006
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Ivor Caplin
Succeeded by
Tom Watson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs
In office 12 June 2003 – 10 May 2005
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
In office 11 June 2001 – 10 May 2005
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Preceded by
David Hanson
Succeeded by
Nick Ainger
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office 30 June 2010 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Islwyn
In office 16 February 1995 – 12 April 2010
Preceded by
Neil Kinnock
Succeeded by
Chris Evans
Personal details
Born
(1947-12-05) 5 December 1947 (age 76) Abersychan, Monmouthshire, Wales
Political party
Labour and Co-operative
Spouse
Jennifer Hughes
(m. 1968; died 2014)
Children
4
Other offices
1999–2001: Assistant Whip in the Commons
2015–2016: Opposition Whip in the Lords
2015–2017, 2020–2021: Shadow Defence Spokesperson
James Donnelly Touhig, Baron TouhigPC KSS (born 5 December 1947), known as Don Touhig, is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Islwyn from 1995 to 2010.[1] A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he served in government as an Assistant Whip from 1999 to 2001 and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 2001 to 2006.
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James Donnelly Touhig, Baron Touhig PC KSS (born 5 December 1947), known as DonTouhig, is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of...
18 June 1970 – 20 January 1995 Preceded by Harold Finch Succeeded by DonTouhig Personal details Born Neil Gordon Kinnock (1942-03-28) 28 March 1942 (age 82)...
by-election, coming fourth with 3.9% of the vote behind the Labour candidate DonTouhig, the Plaid Cymru candidate Jocelyn Davies, and the Liberal Democrat candidate...
office 10 May 2005 – 28 June 2007 Prime Minister Tony Blair Preceded by DonTouhig Succeeded by Huw Irranca-Davies Lord Commissioner of the Treasury In office...
and Finsbury Emily Thornberry Labour Chris Smith Labour Islwyn DonTouhig Labour DonTouhig Labour Constituency Elected MP Elected party Previous MP Previous...
of State Geoff Hoon John Reid Preceded by Lewis Moonie Succeeded by DonTouhig Member of Parliament for Hove In office 1 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 Preceded...
Sutcliffe July 1999 - June 2001 Tony McNulty October 1999 - May 2001 DonTouhig November 1999 - June 2001 Ian Pearson February - June 2001 Government...
June 2003 – September 2004 Anne McGuire (Scotland) June 2003 – May 2005 DonTouhig (Wales) June 2003 – May 2005 Baroness Ashton of Upholland (jointly with...
Kinnock, peer and former leader of the Labour Party Paul Murphy, peer DonTouhig, peer Gething received supporting nominations from ten local government...
Rugby Club. Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, DonTouhig and Paul Murphy (member of parliament for Torfaen); and of the rugby footballers...
DonTouhig 26,995 (74.2%) David Walters 2,864 (7.9%) Christopher Worker 3,064 (8.4%) Darren Jones 2,272 (6.2%) Susan Monaghan 1,209 (3.3%) Don Touhig...
revised version, the Public Interest Disclosure Bill, was introduced by MP DonTouhig at the end of 1995. The bill completed its committee stage in the Commons...
sufficient support. Harriet Harman, the Leader of the House of Commons, asked DonTouhig, the Chairman of the Members' Allowance Committee, to devise a method...
blues-rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2022) 1947 – DonTouhig, Welsh journalist and politician 1948 – Denise Drysdale, Australian television...
Corbyn Labour Islington South and Finsbury Chris Smith Labour Islwyn DonTouhig Labour Co-operative Jarrow Stephen Hepburn Labour Keighley Ann Cryer Labour...
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with whistleblowers were introduced to Parliament, by Tony Wright and DonTouhig respectively, but both efforts fell through. When Richard Shepherd proposed...
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