Baroness Barker Peer

Address:
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW

BIOGRAPHY

Liz Barker, born in 1961, was created a Life Peer in 1999. She attended Dalziel High School in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and after going to Broadway School in Oldham went on to Southampton University.

Baroness Barker joined the Liberal Party in 1979, when she also became a member of the Union of Liberal Students, which she chaired from 1982 to 1983. During the same year, she took membership of the Liberal Party National Executive, and joined, from 1983 to 1986, the Liberator Collective which produces the Liberator magazine. Liz became a member of the Federal Policy Committee in 1997, and was chair of the Liberal Democrat Federal Conference Committee. She is a member of various party policy working groups, including those on the Future of Social Services, Liberal Democracy, Freedom and Fairness for Women, and An Age of Opportunity. She is also a member of the ACCTS trade union.

In November 2004, Liz became Spokesperson on Health for the Liberal Democrats in the Lords.

Liz is a Trustee to the Andy Lawson Memorial Fund, and her other special interests include health, social services, the problems of ageing, poverty and civil liberties.