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29 Facts About Toby Harris

1.

Jonathan Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey was born on 11 October 1953 and is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.

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Harris was born in North London, the son of geneticist Professor Harry Harris and Muriel Harris, a teacher.

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3.

Toby Harris joined the Labour Party when he was sixteen and became Branch Secretary of the Highgate Ward Labour Party while still at school.

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4.

Toby Harris went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences for two years before switching to Economics.

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5.

Toby Harris was Chair of the Cambridge Fabians and Chair of the Cambridge University Labour Club, before becoming President of the Cambridge Union.

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6.

Toby Harris holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University and was for a number of years a Visiting Professor at London South Bank University.

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7.

Toby Harris spent a period as Assistant to Christopher Dow the eminent applied economist, who was then Executive Director of the Bank.

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8.

Toby Harris was Deputy Chair of the National Fuel Policy Forum and a member of the Council of Management of Neighbourhood Energy Action.

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Toby Harris then became Director of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales, which was then the national statutory body representing the interests of the users of the National Health Service, from 1987 to 1998.

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Toby Harris was a member of the Executive Committee of the Patients' Association and served on various Department of Health bodies, including Openness in the NHS Steering Group, the Mental Health Task Force Group, the NHS Charter Advisors Group, and the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution.

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11.

Toby Harris was for a number of years a Senior Advisor to KPMG, and a Senior Associate of the King's Fund, as well as being a Special Advisor to the Board of Transport for London.

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12.

Toby Harris was elected to London Borough of Haringey Council, as its youngest member, in 1978 and remained a member for 24 years.

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Toby Harris had the task of stabilising the Council's finances and dealing with the multimillion-pound overspending under the Bernie Grant leadership.

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14.

Toby Harris had to handle the restoration of Alexandra Palace and the debts incurred on it since Haringey had taken over its ownership from the Greater London Council in 1980.

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15.

Toby Harris was active in the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, whose Social Services Committee he chaired, leading the negotiations with central government on the introduction of Care in the Community and the Children Act.

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16.

Toby Harris was an elected member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2004 representing the Brent and Harrow constituency.

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17.

Toby Harris was the Leader of the Labour Group on the Assembly until he lost his seat at the 2004 Assembly election.

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18.

Toby Harris was the first chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority Metropolitan Police Authority from 2000 to 2004, overseeing the introduction of police community support officers and neighbourhood policing.

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19.

Toby Harris chaired the Independent Advisory Group on Deaths in Custody that reports to the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Department of Health from 2009 to 2015.

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20.

Toby Harris has chaired National Trading Standards which delivers national and regional consumer protection enforcement since 2013 and the Independent Reference Group of the National Crime Agency since 2017.

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21.

Toby Harris is a former Board member of the London Ambulance Service and Transport for London.

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22.

Toby Harris was a member of the European Committee of the Regions from 1994 to 2002.

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23.

Toby Harris was appointed by Tony Blair as a life peer on 5 August 1998 as Baron Toby Harris of Haringey, of Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey taking his seat in October 1998 as a Labour member.

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24.

Toby Harris has been Chair of the Labour Peers'Group since 2012.

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25.

Toby Harris was Chair of the House of Lords Committee on the Legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and was a member of the Lords' Committee on Personal Internet Security.

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26.

Toby Harris chaired the Freedom Charity, which educates young people about forced marriage and intervenes to prevent girls being forced to marry against their will, from 2009 to 2014.

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27.

Toby Harris chaired the Wembley National Stadium Trust from 1995 until 2018.

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28.

Toby Harris was at various times a Trustee of the Safer London Foundation, the Evening Standard Blitz Memorial Trust, the Help for Health Trust and Bilimankhwe Arts.

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29.

Toby Harris is a Director of the not-for-profit Cyber Security Challenge.

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