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Douglas Hogg took which position from Apr 1992 to Apr 1997?
Douglas Hogg Douglas Martin Hogg , 3rd Viscount Hailsham , Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe ( born 5 February 1945 ) , is a British politician and barrister . A member of the Conservative Party he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997 , and was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1979 to 2010 . The Daily Telegraph in 2009 exposed Hogg for claiming upwards of £2,000 of taxpayers money for the purposes of cleaning the moat of his country estate , Kettlethorpe Hall ; thus he became one of the most prominent illustrations used by the media to portray the extent of the parliamentary expenses scandal , although it later emerged that Hogg had been encouraged by the House of Commons Fees Office ( Independent Parliamentary Standards Authoritys precursor ) to submit equivalent en bloc expenses so as to reduce admin . As a result of the negative publicity , Hogg did not seek re-election at the 2010 general election . Aside from his hereditary peerage , he was made a life peer in the 2015 Dissolution Honours allowing him a seat in the House of Lords . As a member of the House of Lords he is styled Viscount Hailsham by parliamentary custom , the family title to which he succeeded in 2001 . Early life . Douglas Hogg , elder son of Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone and former Lord Chancellor , inherited the viscountcy on 12 October 2001 upon the death of his father who had disclaimed that title for life in 1963 , but who later accepted a life peerage in 1970 ; he is the grandson of Douglas Hogg , 1st Viscount Hailsham , formerly Lord Chancellor and Lord President of the Council until 1938 . He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church , Oxford . He served as the President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas ( autumn ) Term 1965 , before graduating with a degree in History in 1966 . He was called to the Bar in 1968 , after which he practised as a barrister . He became a Queens Counsel in 1990 , a year after his younger sister , Dame Mary Hogg , a barrister later appointed Justice of the Family Division . Member of Parliament . The Hon . Douglas Hogg was elected as a Member of Parliament at the 1979 general election for the Lincolnshire seat of Grantham , following the retirement of the sitting Conservative MP Joseph Godber . The Grantham seat was abolished at the 1997 general election ; however , Hogg stood and was returned as MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham in 1997 . In government . In Parliament , Hogg served as a member of the Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Select committee from 1979 , until his appointment as Parliamentary Private Secretary ( PPS ) to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Leon Brittan in 1982 . Hogg became a junior member of the Government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher following the 1983 general election , when he served as a Whip for a year . He rejoined HM Government in 1986 when he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office , and was promoted in 1989 to Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry . Hogg was moved in 1990 under the leadership of Prime Minister John Major to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , becoming a member of the Privy Council in 1992 . He joined Majors Cabinet as the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1995 , serving in that capacity during the BSE crisis for which he received much criticism and remaining in post until the election of Tony Blairs Labour Government in 1997 . On 3 March 1997 , a disgruntled farmer from Anglesey , Louis Hayward , drove six hours from his farm to Kettlethorpe Hall in order to dump three tonnes of pig manure outside Hoggs house . Following the 1997 general election , Hogg was appointed a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee for a year and was a backbencher Member of Parliament until 2010 . The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to a seat in the House of Lords , so when his father died in 2001 ( being heir apparent to the peerage ) , he was not required ( as would previously have been the case ) to resign from the House of Commons and remained an MP until retiring in 2010 . Stevens Enquiry . In the report of his enquiry concerning collusion in Northern Ireland between loyalist paramilitaries and the security forces , under Other Matters concerning Collusion , a section of Sir John Stevens report reads : Expenses . Hogg claimed near maximum Additional Costs Allowance in the 2001 and 2005 UK Parliaments . In 2009 , during the row over MPs expenses , The Daily Telegraph alleged that Hogg had submitted and was paid a claim form including more than £2,000 for the moat around his country estate , Kettlethorpe Hall , to be cleared . The taxpayer helped meet the cost of a full-time housekeeper . Other allegations included expenses for work done to Hoggs stables and for his piano to be tuned . He generously spent or perhaps somewhat overspent on his farm and home office : Hogg agreed a deal with the expenses office simply to have one twelfth of the second homes allowance paid into his bank account every month . In his defence , Hogg resolutely claimed he had not claimed for moat cleaning , and that the items were a list of all expenses incurred during house works , most of which were not paid for by the taxpayer . Hogg responded to the newspapers claims by saying he had agreed the claims with the Fees Office , and therefore hoped and believed that they would comply with the rules and the spirit of the rules as advised . In saying that his claims complied with both the spirit and letter of the rules , Hogg said he had issued , in the interests of transparency , full lists of all his expenditure on the property but these were never meant to be the record of a claim . On 14 May , Hogg agreed to repay the £2,200 cost of clearing the moat , after an order from the party leadership . He maintained he had not claimed the money , but agreed it had not been positively excluded from paperwork submitted to the Commons Fees Office . Following the scandal , Hogg announced on 19 May 2009 that he would not stand at the following general election . House of Lords . Prime Minister David Cameron put Hoggs name forward for a life barony to be included in the 2011 New Year Honours , but House of Lords Appointments Commission advised against the appointment . In 2013 , Hogg stood for election to the House of Lords seat made vacant by the death of the 13th Earl Ferrers , losing to the 5th Viscount Ridley . Months later , he stood for the hereditary peers vacancy to the 90-elected such seats in the House of Lords , following the death of Hugh Mackay , 14th Lord Reay , when Lord Borwick was elected . On 12 October 2015 , he was created a life peer as Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe , of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire , enabling him to sit in the House of Lords . In film and fiction . In February 2010 he was played by Geoffrey Beevers in the television film On Expenses . Marriage and children . Hogg married Hon . Sarah Boyd-Carpenter , daughter of John Boyd-Carpenter , on 6 June 1968 in Westminster . They have two children : - Hon . Charlotte Mary Hogg ( born 26 August 1970 ) , previously in charge of retail operations at Santander UK , in 2013 she was appointed first Chief Operating Officer at the Bank of England , under Governor Mark Carney . In March 2017 she served briefly as Deputy Governor ( Markets and Banking ) , before resigning from both positions for failure to declare that her brother was employed in the banking industry . - Hon . Quintin John Neil Martin Hogg ( born 12 October 1973 ) , heir apparent to the viscountcy . As his wife was created a life peer as Baroness Hogg in 1995 , the Hailshams are among the few couples both of whom hold noble titles in their own right . External links . - Conservative Party - Rt Hon Douglas Hogg QC MP biography - Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle : Douglas Hogg MP - TheyWorkForYou.com - Douglas Hogg MP - The Public Whip - Douglas Hogg MP voting record - BBC News - Douglas Hogg profile 15 February 2005