The Right Honourable The Lord Warner PC |
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Minister of State at the Department of Health | |
In office 2005–2007 |
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Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Personal details | |
Born | 8 September 1940 |
Political party |
Labour (before 2015) Crossbencher (2015 onwards) |
Education | Dulwich College |
Alma mater |
Nuffield College, Oxford University of California, Berkeley |
Norman Reginald Warner, Baron Warner, PC (born 8 September 1940) is a British member of the House of Lords. A career civil servant from 1960, he was created a life peer in 1998. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Health from 2003 to 2007, and a Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2005 to 2007. He has also been an adviser to a number of consulting companies. On 19 October 2015, Lord Warner resigned the Labour whip and became a Non-affiliated member of the House of Lords.
Warner was born on 8 September 1940. He was educated at Dulwich College, an all-boys public school in Dulwich, London. He then studied at Nuffield College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Master of Public Health degree.
Following a career in the civil service in a variety of roles from 1960, he was Director of Social Services for Kent County Council between 1985 and 1991, and chair of the City and East London Family Services Authority 1991 to 1994. He chaired the National Inquiry into Selection, Development and Management of Staff in Children's Homes in 1992.
In 2010 Lord Warner declared he was a strategic advisor to PA Consulting Group, for "strategic advice relating to Middle East activities only".
In 2008 he told the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee that he had "a contract with a particular part of DLA Piper concerned with infrastructure and public services and that requires me to give advice in those areas, including a bit of health regulation." In 2009 he said he was "a paid adviser to the General Healthcare Group" as well as "the chairman of NHS London Development Agency".