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Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey

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In 1993, Labour Council Leaders in London elected Harris as Chair of the Association of London Authorities (ALA) and two years later he led the discussions which led to the merger of the ALA with the London Boroughs Association (which had previously comprised the Conservative and Liberal Democrat led
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He acts as UK Coordinator for the Electric Infrastructure Security Council that brings together the energy industry, lifeline infrastructure providers, central and local government, the voluntary sector and academia to help mitigate the risks of and consequences of a major wide-area and long-duration
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Harris chaired the Wembley National Stadium Trust from 1995 until 2018. The Trust successfully led the bid for lottery funding to enable the national stadium to be rebuilt at Wembleyand once the new stadium had reopened distributes 1% of the Stadium's turnover to support community sports activities.
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One of the criticisms during his leadership was the expenses he incurred. Over the course of one year, his expenses were more than ÂŁ24,000, including more than ÂŁ15,000 spent on taxis. Although the District Auditor's investigation cleared him of any wrongdoing, it was critical of the flaws of the
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Council, as its youngest member, in 1978 and remained a member for 24 years. For five years, he chaired the Council's Social Services Committee and was also Labour Group Chief Whip. From 1987 to 1999, he was Leader of the Council, having been elected during a turbulent period of the Council's
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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. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Patients’
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In 2014, the then Minister for Prisons asked Harris to lead an independent review into the self-inflicted deaths of 87 young people in prison. This was published the following year as the Harris Review: Changing Prisons, Saving Lives and was the most substantial review of penal policy for a
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In 1998, Harris established Toby Harris Associates that provided strategic advice to a wide range of public and private sector organisations. At various times, these included Unisys, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Airwave Solutions, Sunrise Radio, the National Grid and Humana Europe.
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His next job was as Deputy Director of the Electricity Consumers’ Council, where he led the pricing policy and social policy sides of the Council's work. He 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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as newly elected Mayor of London commissioned Harris to conduct an independent review into London's Preparedness to Respond to a Major Terrorist Incident. Most of the recommendations of his review were accepted, although not all had been implemented by the time of the
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and is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Policing. He was Chair of the House of Lords Committee on the Legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and was also a member of the Lords’ Committee on Personal Internet Security.
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Harris was also 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. When the
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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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After university, Harris was National Chair of the Young Fabians and served on the Executive of the Fabian Society and again became active in the London Labour Party, as Chair of Hornsey Constituency Labour Party.
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He has also 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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constituency. He was the Leader of the Labour Group on the Assembly until he lost his seat at the 2004 Assembly election. He was the first chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority
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Harris also 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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Harris also 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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history as its seventh Leader in seven and a half years. He had the task of stabilising the Council's finances and dealing with the multimillion-pound overspending under the
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system, which meant that council members were never sent invoices for such expenses and so were not able to check the actual amount that the council was being charged.
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He was also 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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taking his seat in October 1998 as a Labour member. He has been Chair of the Labour Peers’ Group since 2012 (having been vice-chair from 2008 until 2012).
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from 2000 to 2004, overseeing the introduction of police community support officers and neighbourhood policing.
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and the debts incurred on it since Haringey had taken over its ownership from the
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generation whose publication was hailed as “a watershed moment” by campaigners.
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After losing his seat on the London Assembly in 2004, the Home Secretary,
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Since January 2019, he has been Chair of the Fundraising Regulator.
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was formed in 1997, Harris chaired the Labour Group (until 2004).
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He is a Director of the not-for-profit Cyber Security Challenge.
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Harris was born in North London, the son of geneticist Professor
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and Muriel Harris (née Hargest), a teacher. He was educated at
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After Cambridge, Harris joined the Economics Division of the
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Boroughs) to form the Association of London Government (now
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leadership. He also had to handle the restoration of
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He was also for a number of years a Senior Advisor to
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and was for a number of years a visiting professor at
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Index

The Right Honourable

Labour Party
London Assembly
Tony Blair
Len Duvall
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Life peerage
London Assembly
Brent and Harrow
Bob Blackman
London
Labour
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
Labour Party
House of Lords
Harry Harris
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
direct grant grammar school
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Labour Club
Cambridge Union
Middlesex University
London South Bank University
Bank of England
Christopher Dow
KPMG

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