Speakers

What makes Westminster Briefing events unique is the unsurpassed quality and experience of our speakers.
Past speakers have included:

  • Graham Badman CBE, Author, Badman Review
  • Margaret Beckett MP, Former Foreign Secretary & Secretary of State for the Environment
  • Alan Beith MP, Chair, Justice Select Committee
  • Anne Begg MP,  Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee
  • Keith Best, Former Chief Executive, Immigration Advisory Service
  • Cllr Paul Bettison, Chair, Improvement and Efficiency South East
  • Professor Chris Bentley, Head of Health Inequalities Unit, Department of Health
  • Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work Health, Work and Wellbeing Delivery Unit
  • Mike Brace, Chief Executive, Vision 2020 UK
  • Kevin Brennan MP, Shadow Minister for FE, Skills, Apprenticeships and Consumer Affairs
  • James Brokenshire MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime Prevention
  • Jeremy Browne MP, Minister of State at the Foreign Office
  • Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, Department of Health
  • Richard Caborn MP, Former Minister of State for Sport,
  • Kay Carberry, Assistant General Secretary, TUC
  • John Chowcat, General Secretary, ASPECT
  • Charles Clarke, Former Home Secretary
  • Vernon Coaker MP, Former Minister of State for Schools & Learners
  • Ed Davey MP, Lib Dem Chief of Staff
  • Louise Ellman MP, Chair, Transport Select Committee
  • Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive, NCVO
  • Caroline Flint MP, Former Minister of State for Europe
  • Lord Freud, Government Spokesperson, Department for Work and Pensions
  • Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for Schools
  • Mark Goldring, Chief Executive, Mencap
  • David Hanson MP, Shadow Minister for Policing (also HM Treasury)
  • John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning
  • Paul Hayes, Chief Executive, National Treatment Agency
  • Patricia Hewitt, Former Secretary of State for Health,
  • Margaret Hodge MP, Former Minister for Culture and Tourism, Chair of Public Accounts Committee
  • Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
  • Joan Humble, Former MP for Blackpool North & Fleetwood, Chair, All Party Childcare Group
  • Stephen Joseph, Executive Director, Campaign for Better Transport
  • Lord Jones Of Birmingham, Former Minister of State for Trade and Former Director General of CBI
  • Eric Joyce MP, Labour MP
  • Ann Keen, Former MP for Brentford & Isleworth, Former Health Minister
  • Ruth Kelly, Former Secretary of State for Education & Transport
  • Sir Ken Knight, Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser
  • Tim Lamb, Chief Executive of CCPR
  • Lord Laming, Chairman of the Victoria Climbie Inquiry, Author ‘Laming Review’ of Child Protection
  • Les Lawrence, Chair, Safer Communities Board
  • Earl Listowel, Secretary, Adoption & Fostering Group
  • Anne Longfield, Chief Executive, 4 Children
  • Andy Love MP, Member, Commons Treasury Select Committee
  • Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Author of Fair Society, Healthy Lives
  • Theresa May MP, Home Secretary & Minister for Women & Equality
  • Alan Milburn, Former MP for Darlington & Former Chair, Fair Access to the Professions Panel
  • Lord Moynihan, Chairman of the British Olympic Association
  • Meg Munn MP, Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
  • Jim Murphy MP, Former Secretary of State for Scotland
  • Ben Page, Chief Executive, Ipsos MORI
  • Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
  • Ian Pearson, Former MP for Dudley South, Former Economic Secretary to the Treasury
  • Brian Pomeroy, Chairman, Financial Inclusion Taskforce, HM Treasury
  • Baroness Prosser, Labour Peer, Deputy Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission
  • James Purnell MP, Former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Head of Open Left project, Demos
  • Paul Raynes, Programme Director, LGA
  • Jonathan Rees, Director General, Government Equalities Office
  • Terry Rooney, Former Labour MP for Bradford North
  • David Ruffley MP, Former Shadow Minister for Police Reform
  • Mark Serwotka, General Secretary, Public & Commercial Services Union
  • Barry Sheerman MP, Labour MP for Huddersfield, & Former Chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Committee
  • Brigid Simmonds, Chair, CCPR
  • Sir Alan Steer, Advisor to the Gov’t and Chair Practitioners Group on School Behaviour
  • Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Sir Mike Tomlinson, Former Chair of the Working Group on 14-19 Reform
  • Assistant Chief Constable Ivor Twydell, ACPO Lead on Community Safety Partnerships
  • Baroness Walmsley, Former Liberal Democrat spokesman for Children, Schools and Families
  • Keith Vaz MP, Chair, Home Affairs Select Committee
  • Rose Winterton MP, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
  • Lord Bradley of Withington, Author of the Bradley Report
  • Lord Young of Graffam, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Health and Safety Law